Can your meal experience be any easier…?
Last year, a two page feature article in a national newspaper carried the following headline: “Are you allergic to bread?” The basis of the article was that one in three people has intolerance to wheat, which causes anything from bloating to depression. In fact, the headline was both alarmist and misleading. Unfortunately, the article also contained several scientifically meaningless statements, contradictions, and factual errors suggesting that fermentation of foods in the gut is similar to “low grade poisoning,” and that wheat is “very hard for our bodies to digest.” The suggestion that wheat intolerance affects 35% of the population was...
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