Here’s a diagnosis that doctors only started thinking about as recently as the 1980’s and now, decades later, although there are now plenty of gluten free items available both in grocery stores and on restaurant menus, doctors are still arguing about its existence. Many don’t even mention it to their patients with irritable bowel syndrome. “Why […]
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Gluten Sensitivity
For years doctors were taught in medical school that gluten sensitivity and its severest form, celiac disease, were rare, identified mainly in children who were unable to absorb food. In photographs, youngsters with celiac disease looked like starving children because in fact they were starving, for nutrients. Once the diagnosis had been made and they’d been taken off all gluten grains–wheat, barley, rye, oats, kamut, and triticale–they rapidly regained weight and lived normal lives.