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Date Posted: 14:21:50 11/07/13 Thu
Author: Bearman
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Subject: The great gluten-free scam?

The new ubiquity of gluten-free products certainly makes life much easier for sufferers of coeliac disease, an auto-immune response to wheat where the body believes wrongly that gluten is attacking it. This makes the finger-shaped vilii that line the small intestine flatten out, stopping absorption of nutrients, with side effects including muscular disturbances, joint pain, headaches and vertigo.

But coeliacs make up only one in 100 of the population, while one in five of us is buying gluten-free products.

So why has it recently become demonised? The gluten-free �community� points to a recent surge in the number of people being diagnosed as coeliacs. Not so long ago GPs expected to see one case during their whole career, but now one per cent of the population has it. (Though others say the rise is simply due to improved diagnostic methods and greater awareness of the condition.)

�Bread is like fruit, it needs time to ripen and unfermented wheat appears to have a very bad effect on some digestive systems and in some cases triggers the coeliac response,� Young explains.

New, genetically modified �dwarf� wheat, developed in the past 40 years may also have played a part. �We used to grow wheat that was over 6ft tall, that was higher in nutrients and also contained a much smaller variety of gluten proteins than the dwarf varieties,� he says.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/healthyeating/10430422/The-great-gluten-free-scam.html

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