With that guitar riff overlaying an afternoon in the park and children playing in the background, you could break it to your wife that you're committing suicide in less than 5 minutes, and she'd be OK with it. Although I'll admit I find the recent gluten-free fad to be a bit comical, it's just a damn shame that we don't have a better handle on nutrition at this point in our evolution. And yes, it's very complicated, but the fact that each of us perform several experiments (eating) every day without an easy way to assimilate the data is frustrating. I file nutrition with meteorology, under the "sciences-that-piss-me-off" category, because the systems are just so damn complicated that progress seems to be a crawl, especially compared to things like semi-conductor tech or whatever. Anyway, would love to see someone doing the gluten-free thing come in here and lay it all out. If it leads to an avoidance of bread and simple carbs in general, they could even hang with the Keto crowd...
Gluten is a well established pro-inflammatory molecule, and has effects in many people who don't even have celiac disease. Personally, I enjoy glutenous foods, because I love beer. But I could live without everything else fairly easily (says the dude who stuffs his face with cookies all day...I could stop, I swear). Systemic inflammation is a serious health hazard, and reducing foods from your diet that cause inflammation is probably a good way to reduce your long term risk of some diseases (and the corollary costs). I think that it's likely that a gluten free diet tends to reduce one's overall calorie intake, in addition to simply limiting gluten. Certainly there are calorie rich gluten free foods (e.g. potatoes, soda, candy bars), but kicking bread, beer, and pasta out of your diet will probably go a long way to cutting food consumption for most people. I imagine that for most people, going on a gluten-reduced diet, as opposed to a total avoidance, would probably be a wise move with respect to health.
So, eat gluten ---> get BIGGG. And... what'd coach say? Coach said to get big!! hopelessly flexes entire upper torso But seriously, wise words. It's worth additional studies, and we'll probably get / are getting some good science from this "gluten-free" fad.Gluten is a well established pro-inflammatory molecule...