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And I'd also like to point out that I've taken entire months off from grains (When dieting, I remove most grains, not because they are bad - but because I can eat a whole loaf of bread and still be hungry.. just not that filling)

I did not feel either better or worse while consuming or not consuming grain.

Trust me, it isn't bad for you like you seem to think to non-celiacs.

Some papers on WGA.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4510 ... d_RVDocSum

This one shows that WGA mimics insulin.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3768 ... d_RVDocSum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6895 ... stractPlus

The above are rat studies and show that it causes damage to the microvilli. It causes Celiac in the rats.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3906 ... stractPlus

This one shows that the damage to microvilli reduces enzymatic activity in rats.

Lactase is one of those enzymes and is one of the reasons for Lactose intolerance.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6278 ... d_RVDocSum
It also damages the ability to digest triglycerides.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1791 ... d_RVDocSum

The above shows that people with lactose intolerance recover their tolerance when removing wheat from diet. Showing that Lactose intolerance is really a cause of WGA.

I would think that you might want to read this article instead. Peter is very good and provides lots of papers to read. If you are into that thing.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ ... ctose.html

Another one.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/ ... 20wheat%3F

We know enough mechanism, on how it damages our body. I rely on the mechanisms more than studies (with their large scope of mis-interpretation). You know there is not a single mechanism known by which saturated fat causes damage (as opposed to trans-fats or Omega6 fats). But you have a huge host of mis-interpreted studies showing saturated fat damaging human body.

There is some obesity research on rats, which show that fat causes obesity faster than carbs, but they only use a zero nutrient diet for the rats, to bring out the results faster. It is quite possible that the results are this way because of the zero nutrient diet. Why fats cause faster obesity than carbs is intriguing, but I have no idea why it could happen.

Metabolism is the key factor here. Not the calories. If you can increase your metabolism you can eat more. Actually low carb increases your metabolism.

Some hardgainers do eat a lot. My brother was very thin, and he literally used to eat food enough for 3-4 people. He got thrown out of all you can eat messes because he ate so much. I do eat a lot, compared to other people, but that doesn't even approach him any where. I can finish biryani made out of 1 Kg of meat (with bones) with 300gms of uncooked rice, and lots of ghee, at lunch. How much calorie that is? Granted I don't do that regularly. But when I was young I could do that regularly. He could do at least twice of that.

Is it most grains are all grains. Is wheat part of those not removed grains. You have to be strict with WGA to actually heal out. There must be people who are immune to it. And you could be one of them. That doesn't mean everybody else is.

The clinical definition of celiacs does not take into account those that have the problem, but don't have any outward appearance of it. Like I said Lactose intolerance is a manifestation of WGA sensitivity. You must definitely know some people who think that it is just our inability to digest milk. Papers are attached to my other mail.

Like you can get Tuberculosis, but have no symptoms of it. My wife had it for a year (infection in the kidney), and the only symptom for it was a slight elevation in body temperature. Nothing that would be treated as fever. We found it only when one and a half liter of pus was collected. Then too the doctors (actually two of them) refused to believe it was anything more than a figment of her imagination. Finally we got a doctor that ordered an ultra sound.

I know it is bad for me. I had severe digestion problems which I fixed after getting rid of it. It also runs in my family. My brother cured his eczema problems, after he got rid of it. But I or my brother have no coeliac symptoms.

It is because of these problems that I started to research diet.

Mostly low blood pressure, low temperature. Dizziness. Sometimes I will feel faint when getting up from bed. This happens when I do low carb and exercise together. So now I have given up low carb, and reduced exercise to short weight lifting sessions two times a week. I gained back 10pounds. Not a bad trade off I guess.

Cultural vegetarians don't eat meat, but thats all. They will eat all sorts of junk that does not have meat in it.
We do eat a lot more vegetables compared to people around us. But the point here was reducing grains and legumes and replacing them with vegetables and making potatoes the staple.

I have given a number of papers on the ways WGA causes damage above. Those are on mechanisms by which it does damage. These papers are the real deal, not an epidemiological study.



Interesting analogy... but do you actually know anyone with celiac? They don't stop noticing the symptoms.
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No, its not that much of a problem in India. Isn't it curious. I suspect the reason is that our guts are not in as bad a shape as in western countries because we grew up on mother's milk.


Yes, it is tough. It is a challenge. Starting this thread made me interested in taking up this challenge. Yesterday, I did not eat the Pizza. I hope I will be able to say no for the whole month. It is a problem living with people making such delicious food :-(. It would be so much more easier if I did not have these temptations.

anandsr21--
You link a bunch of papers. Reading quickly I discover things like gluten is bad for celiacs, and not-too horrifying things like in some way, wheat supposedly acts like insulin. So what if it acts like insulin. Lots of people want to control insulin, but it's hardly a poison and something acting like insulin aren't causing damage.

So could you help me out and point out the papers that show wheat causes damage? I'd especially like to know which of the papers suggest wheat does damage that results in this--


And that further shows the sense in which these enter our blood stream is a bad thing. ( After all, food is digested. Otherwise, it's pooped out. Gluten, casein and peanut protein aren't fibers. So, in some sense, they pass through the gut -- but in what way is this a bad thing? I've eaten peanut butter sandwiches washed down with milk and haven't had any horrible symptoms. I'm pretty sure I've digested the food.

So what, "damage" are you worrying about?

My sister was breastfed. Celiac is fairly rare in western countries too. Currently, believing you are gluten intolerant seems to be fashionable. Lots of people are self diagnosing it. Few have taken the test.

You don't think most people in the West grew up on mother's milk? Bottle feeding started fading from fashion in the '60, was pretty uncommon by the late '70s.

In this section I have quoted again, you are right on the first two, but the 2nd is wrong. There is no evidence to show that anyone with **NORMAL, HEALTHY** kindneys has any limits on protein.

Gluconeogenesis is a very inefficient process so you really don't have to worry about it. Your excess protein is not going to turn into glucose. It just passes through. Try eating an excessively large amount of lean protein at one time and see what happens. You will get gas and maybe even the protein craps. This shows that it just goes through.

You and Nightfall both seem to think that just because you eat something your body is obligated to digest it. That is just plain wrong. If it can it will, if it can't it won't.

Lack of research just means that is something we don't know. You can't just go by hunches. Besides a lot of your hunches must have been made quite some time ago because now we do have the data.

DNL is a type of fat synthesis. That's what happens to excess glycogen. Years ago people thought it was not significant, but it is.

I was referring to kcal also. Kcal is a heat measurement. They get it by burning macronutrients in a blast furnace. Your body is exponentially more complicated than a furnace. Wood is indeed calorie dense but you can't digest it.

There is no evidence showing that losing weight requires a calorie deficit in the way you mean it. Removing macronutrients do not always cause a calorie deficit in the way you mean it either.

The only type of calorie deficit required, is in the blood. As in what actually goes in and out of cells, and what is left over to go into fat cells or what is needed to come out of fat cells. Even that isn't always the way in 100% of circumstances.

The calorie deficit going from the label on your food, to the counter on the treadmill and everything in between doesn't mean crap. You cannot get an accurate measure like that. You have many many complex chemical reactions in between those. Your body is not a box where you just put things in and take them out. Just because you ate it does not mean it's going to get digested, not to mention what sort of hormone responses it may or may not set off.

Then you have the individual nature of how everyone handles carbs and the "speed" of their metabolism.

If you have evidence for the calorie myth please post it. I have been at this for several years and nobody has been able to do so yet. In fact I have a book that contains 65 pages of nothing but sited studies, nearly all of which are applicable and all of those point in the opposite direction.

I agree that it will pass through, as it has no other way for it to go. But that is OK only when there are enough calories otherwise. If not then the body will try to get at that energy. That is when it starts to get poisonous. Rabbit Starvation is a fairly well documented phenomenon. It started from NightFall's 70%, 15%, 15%. That would be a dreadful diet on a long term basis. And it seemed by his post that it was his normal diet.

I am not sure about the kidneys capacity, because it would never get tested unless you have only one kidney. The body has a limited capacity to convert protein to glucose. So the ammonia created will be limited. I would think if you have a single kidney then, you would get problems with very high protein diets.

I would think it a waste of money to add the expensive protein in diet just to $h1t it out.

I didn't know about it. That is what we get to know in India. Bottle Feeding is on the rise there, unfortunately.

And besides, who says our guts are in "bad shape"?

Actually, our guts are in bad shape. Many auto-immune deseases may be linked to gut flora, either a direct cause or agrivated by it. Diet plays a big role as does excess antibiotics in factory meat. Medically prescribed antibiotics are relatively known qtys but they're a small part of what we actually ingest. By daughter's UC flair up last summer was triggered by a C Diff infection. A healthy gut probably would have prevented that episode which nearly cost her colon. It took a few Remicade treatments to take care of it.

Oh I didn't realize that it could be mainly due to the factory meat.

I have a friend in Toronto. His son is also having problems. But they do not eat meat. I would think that something is in the plant food too. They do eat a lot of junk (so called healthy, packaged foods).