The Gluten Lie: And Other Myths about What You Eat

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The overall message is certainly worthwhile, but I would have liked a little more depth and evidence base in places.

It's not that he was incorrect about eating with intention not distraction or avoiding plastics; his information is good. This, again, suggests that something besides gluten may be contributing to leaky gut in people with celiac. demonai" čia ne be reikalo - autorius šiaip užsiima ir religijos studijomis, tad įžvelgia nemažai panašumų tarp religinių praktikų ir mūsų požiūrio į kai kuriuos "blogus" maisto produktus. However having been involved with natural foods since the late 60's and working in the retail end for 39 of those years I've seen a lot of change and food trends and the subject is of long interest to me.The relative effectiveness of moderate exercise, long thought a key component in reducing obesity rates, is now under scrutiny.

Made from finely milled high-grade matcha leaves, which are grown in the shade, matcha boasts 130 times more anti-oxidants than your bog standard green tea and is supposed to boost energy levels, lower stress, improve your mood and aid metabolism. Our food beliefs are shaped not by hard data, but by age-old myths and the lies we are told by huckster physicians.Priests declare foods clean or unclean, and if you eat "bad" food you must repent by purging out the unwholesome.

Since the publication of Wheat Belly (2011) and Grain Brain (2013), both treatises against gluten, a soaring number of people – most of them in America – have sworn off it: Gwyneth Paltrow espouses the gluten-free lifestyle, Miley Cyrus avers that it helped her get over fatigue. This book will not deter me from reading an endless plethora more of books on health, nutrition, and vitamins, but it will help me to analyze them even better, much better, than I have in the past. It’s easy to scoff at fad diets, but Levinovitz also makes clear that there’s precious little evidence for most of what we think we “know” about healthy eating — or, for that matter, little evidence behind many of the solemn pronouncements of the medical establishment, including some made by the American Heart Association and the CDC.

Chinese sages with long beards, wise old women prescribing natural folk remedies—these are characters from fairy tales, not trustworthy sources of medical information. How long your body has been waging war on its own tissue will determine what “reverse” means to you. It explains a bit the history of celiac disease and how it´s non-sense for people who are not celiacs to avoid gluten like a plague. This is a fantastic idea that packs more information people can actually use than the rest of the book taken together.