Word: gluten
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...know that I'm a big fan of eating whole grains as part of a healthful, balanced diet. But that's not always so easy. There are some people--most of them of European ancestry--for whom many grains are dangerous. Their body can't tolerate a protein called gluten that's found in wheat, rye and barley. For reasons that aren't clear, their immune system responds to the presence of gluten in the diet by attacking the small intestine. Gluten sensitivity can lead to severe malnutrition, and appears to increase the risk of certain cancers...
...celiac disease, may affect the brain as well. In a study published in the journal Neurology, Dr. Marios Hadjivassiliou and his colleagues at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, England, found that a wheat-free diet dramatically reduced the number of debilitating headaches suffered by some of their gluten-sensitive patients. MRI brain scans suggest that gluten somehow triggered an inflammatory response in the white matter of the cerebrum...
...found to suffer from gluten sensitivity, you'll soon discover that it's difficult to adopt a gluten-free diet. The protein is widely used as a thickener in soups, canned vegetables and other processed foods and often contaminates products made with oats. It also takes a while to get used to bread baked with flour made from rice, soy or potatoes (none of which contain gluten...
Whatever you do, don't assume that you can reliably diagnose the condition yourself. "We get calls all the time from people who have been gluten-free for six months or a year and now wonder if they have celiac disease," says Sue Goldstein, founder of the Westchester Celiac Support Group in New York. By then, diagnosis is very difficult; the telltale antibodies will have disappeared, and the intestinal biopsy may not show anything wrong. You may even have to re-expose yourself to wheat--and get sick again--to prove that your gut instinct was right...
Humans said to their PDAs, "Heat my house, for I am on my way home. Alert me when the Williams and the Sonoma mark down by a 40th portion the things that make the gluten strands. Why is my stock so low? Get my broker out of the shower, or the flushing place, and tell him that I am wroth!" Or, "I am fatigued from the going-out of the caffeine. Lead me to the temple of Starbuck." And they would guide cars there. And it was amazing...