jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 7/7/2015 8:23 PM, cshenk wrote:
> > jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> > > On 7/7/2015 6:05 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 12:22:36 PM UTC-7, graham wrote:
> > > > > http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...uten-free-diet
> > > > > -rea lly-healthier
> > > >
> > > > It is healthier for you if you have an allergy to gluten or
> > > > even a sensitivity.
> > > >
> > > > If you don't have a gluten allergy or sensitivity then why
> > > > bother?
> > > >
> > > Because it's trendy. Gluten free seems to be the big thing right
> > > now.
> > >
> > > Jill
> >
> > I think that is true. I will grant some folks do seem to have a
> > real intolerance (not celiac, but issues yet the same) I suspect
> > many who go 'gluten free' are following a trendy diet idea.
> >
> > Carol
> >
> It seems that way to me, Carol. Merely because it's being talked
> about so much, and only in recent years. I'd never heard much about
> problems with gluten. Then there was a recent explosion of
> gluten-free products. Everyone's talking gluten-free. Um.
> Remember when eggs were bad for you? Then they weren't? That's
> about the way I feel about the gluten-free thing. All you have to do
> is wait a minute, popular opinion will change.
>
> I've only ever met one person who actually had celiac disease. She
> was an executive at the company where I worked. She flew in from
> corporate. She told me she really wished she could try cornbread
> one day but couldn't find a recipe that didn't call for flour.
> Granted, this was around 1997 and she obviously wasn't very
> proficient with computers. Back then I couldn't find many references
> to celiac or recipes. I did find her a recipe for cornbread that did
> not contain wheat flour. No idea if she ever tried it.
>
> Jill

Yup, it's like the MSG free craze. I don't doubt many people are
positive they have MSG issues but scientific testing has debunked it
time and again. People with 'chinese food syndrome' (aka MSG evil) are
shown to be reactive to other items in those dishes, not the MSG alone.
For example, a lot were reacting to shellfish but blaming the MSG,
others to iodine in seaweed and blaming the MSG.

Some may have minor reactions, but science can't proof it yet because
so far, all scienfifically conducted tests whrre they tell one set it
has MSG, you get some reactors and others where you dont tell them it
has any, do not react at all. My favorite was on a Mac-n-cheese test.
Both control groups were fed the same with a normal MSG content used in
asian dishes. One set was told, one was not. Both contained people
claiming to be sensitive to MSG. Only the set told it had MSG reacted
with headaches and so on. They took the set that reacted, and told
them they needed to rule out anything else in the Mac-n-cheese being a
problem so told them they were feeding them a set with no MSG (then fed
them a set idential with MSG) and suprise! No one reacted.

Carol

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