Perhaps the most important take away from this article is not the disputed existence of non-celiac gluten sensitivity, but rather the effect of your state and beliefs on how your body responds to particular foods. Some may be sensitive to gluten, some to dairy and others to FODMAPs... but the guilt and self-shaming that accompanies eating particular foods or straying from a prescribed diet likely does more harm than the actual food. We are not offering a free pass to eat like an asshole. This is a request to stop demonizing your food (or what others eat.) Here, try the following: Step 1: Eat a food Step 2: Do you like how you feel after (immediately, 1 hr, 2 hr)? Step 3a - No? stop eating it. dont eat like an asshole Step 3b - Yes? great. Dont eat like an asshole Step 4 - deadlift The increased mindfulness of what people are putting into their bodies is a wonderful thing. This will contribute to incredible changes in body composition and life. But believing something is bad before knowing how your body handles it, is not mindfulness, it is borderline ignorance. (There are obvious exclusions like household cleaning items, poisons, and Justin Bieber.) It seems to be a nocebo effect — the self-diagnosed gluten sensitive patients expected to feel worse on the study diets, so they did. They were also likely more attentive to their intestinal distress, since they had to monitor it for the study. Click through the links in the article for more in depth coverage of the studies cited.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:30:37 +0000