Re: Digest Number 222

[Guest guest]

The good thing to think of is that this is one of those rare situations where the cure is as easy as changing one's diet -- no medication is required.

The bad part is that gluten-free food is a bit harder to come by in a time when food is less commonly cooked from scratch from unprocessed ingredients.

If one is willing and able to buy basic ingredients and prepare one's own food in a GF kitchen, things go pretty well. Unfortunately, this isn't easy or even possible for everyone.

Harper

In a message dated 7/26/05 9:07:07 AM, stephenrider@... writes:

Dear Louise

It is true that much modern food contains ingredients

not used hundreds of years ago, but this is not a cause

of celiac disease.

In the case of celiac disease a genetic abnormality

predisposes about 1 person in 133 to develop

a misguided autoimmune reaction in which our

own immune systems attack our bodies.

Celiac disease is the result of a genetic defect

in certain people, this is very well understood and

very well documented.

All food, organic or otherwise, is composed completely

of chemicals. Our bodies are too.

Food preservatives are absolutely required if we

are going to feed the 5 or 6 billion people on this

planet. It is better to have food with preservatives

that has not spoiled than it is to have food with

no preservatives that has spoiled. The distribution

system required to feed all these people requires

the use of preservatives.

You may indeed be wise to want to avoid foods

with unnecessary additives, I do the same as well.

My solution is to base as many of my meals as

possible on basic ingredients, especially fresh

produce.

Finally, there are no pills or other drugs (yet) that will

treat celiac disease. The onl;y legitimate treatment

regimen is lifetime adherence to a gluten-free diet.

It is a bitter pill to swallow, in a figurative sense,

having to switch to a GF diet, but it is the only way.

I hope things are going well for you.

Steve

[Guest guest]

Dear Louise

It is true that much modern food contains ingredients

not used hundreds of years ago, but this is not a cause

of celiac disease.

In the case of celiac disease a genetic abnormality

predisposes about 1 person in 133 to develop

a misguided autoimmune reaction in which our

own immune systems attack our bodies.

Celiac disease is the result of a genetic defect

in certain people, this is very well understood and

very well documented.

All food, organic or otherwise, is composed completely

of chemicals. Our bodies are too.

Food preservatives are absolutely required if we

are going to feed the 5 or 6 billion people on this

planet. It is better to have food with preservatives

that has not spoiled than it is to have food with

no preservatives that has spoiled. The distribution

system required to feed all these people requires

the use of preservatives.

You may indeed be wise to want to avoid foods

with unnecessary additives, I do the same as well.

My solution is to base as many of my meals as

possible on basic ingredients, especially fresh

produce.

Finally, there are no pills or other drugs (yet) that will

treat celiac disease. The onl;y legitimate treatment

regimen is lifetime adherence to a gluten-free diet.

It is a bitter pill to swallow, in a figurative sense,

having to switch to a GF diet, but it is the only way.

I hope things are going well for you.

Steve

--

Steve Rider

http://CeliacShop.com/

http://SensibleCeliac.com/

On 7/25/05, Louise Audell <louise_gd@...> wrote:

> I agree with you Connie.

>

> It's easy for the medical industry to say it's us who

> have the health problem, this " disease " , when really

> it's all the crap they're putting in our food that's

> the problem. It's the processing, dyes, additives,

> preservatives, and the like that are the problem.

>

> It isn't our bodies that are wrong - if anything our

> bodies are allerting the rest of society that there

> " is something wrong with our food " . A warning signal;

> a " danger sign " - and no one is paying attention.

>

> And instead of addressing the real problem, the

> chemicals, they pin it on us - society - give this

> disease a name, Celiac Disease, and try to sell us

> some pills.

>

> You know, my mom said the food & drug administration

> are " one in the same " ...so who do you think is

> winning?

>

> Cancer is on the rise, to the point of it being the

> next epidemic, and no one is making the connection

> between the food they're eating and the cancer they're

> getting.

[Guest guest]

Steve,

I agree with everything you have said except that gluten intolerance/celiac

is NOT a genetic defect - it is just that we still have the " wild type " of

HLADQ genes - the people who do NOT react to gluten are the descendents of

people who ate wheat/rye/barley and who did not die off before having

children. So it is not a defect, rather the original genes from the

" heathen " portions of the planet. Some people whose ancestors never did eat

wheat/rye/barley do not have the " celiac " genes as part of the normal

distribution of these genes and a greater percentage of the ones that do

survived in those populations.

Connie Hampton

-----Original Message-----

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On Behalf Of Steve Rider

Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:07 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] Digest Number 222

Dear Louise

It is true that much modern food contains ingredients

not used hundreds of years ago, but this is not a cause

of celiac disease.

In the case of celiac disease a genetic abnormality

predisposes about 1 person in 133 to develop

a misguided autoimmune reaction in which our

own immune systems attack our bodies.

Celiac disease is the result of a genetic defect

in certain people, this is very well understood and

very well documented.

All food, organic or otherwise, is composed completely

of chemicals. Our bodies are too.

Food preservatives are absolutely required if we

are going to feed the 5 or 6 billion people on this

planet. It is better to have food with preservatives

that has not spoiled than it is to have food with

no preservatives that has spoiled. The distribution

system required to feed all these people requires

the use of preservatives.

You may indeed be wise to want to avoid foods

with unnecessary additives, I do the same as well.

My solution is to base as many of my meals as

possible on basic ingredients, especially fresh

produce.

Finally, there are no pills or other drugs (yet) that will

treat celiac disease. The onl;y legitimate treatment

regimen is lifetime adherence to a gluten-free diet.

It is a bitter pill to swallow, in a figurative sense,

having to switch to a GF diet, but it is the only way.

I hope things are going well for you.

Steve

--

Steve Rider

http://CeliacShop.com/

http://SensibleCeliac.com/

On 7/25/05, Louise Audell <louise_gd@...> wrote:

> I agree with you Connie.

>

> It's easy for the medical industry to say it's us who

> have the health problem, this " disease " , when really

> it's all the crap they're putting in our food that's

> the problem. It's the processing, dyes, additives,

> preservatives, and the like that are the problem.

>

> It isn't our bodies that are wrong - if anything our

> bodies are allerting the rest of society that there

> " is something wrong with our food " . A warning signal;

> a " danger sign " - and no one is paying attention.

>

> And instead of addressing the real problem, the

> chemicals, they pin it on us - society - give this

> disease a name, Celiac Disease, and try to sell us

> some pills.

>

> You know, my mom said the food & drug administration

> are " one in the same " ...so who do you think is

> winning?

>

> Cancer is on the rise, to the point of it being the

> next epidemic, and no one is making the connection

> between the food they're eating and the cancer they're

> getting.