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...survival if they remained? Or should they wander elsewhere until they found help? After a three-year drought, every village well had run dry, and the goats and sheep had died. Finally Hawaneen decided it was time to go; he had fed his family the last grains of wheat he had intended to plant this spring if the rains ever came. Besides, word had reached his village in Badgis province that foreign-aid agencies had set up a camp near Herat, an ancient caravansary of broken minarets and sandstorms in western Afghanistan, and were giving out food and medicine there...
Take into consideration globalization. American and European corporations are getting together. Small banks are dying and are joining each other, even across national borders. You have car production between countries. Africa has to think and look to the market as a whole. We are buying wheat from the United States and Europe. I think the price is less if you buy wheat for 200 million people instead of just 1 million. Globalization is not a threat. It is a fact that we have to live with...
...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...
...comes word that this condition, known as 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...
...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...