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Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by bane on Sunday October 26, 2014 @06:47PM (#8512817)
The best part is when your friends complain about being on a gluten-free diet and you know they aren't sensitive (based on decades of late night pizza and sandwich runs) and they clearly aren't celiac so you say "oh yeah, no problem I've planned out a gluten free meal, health and whatever", and you serve gluten rich foods to them anyways and nobody complains about vague nonspecific symptoms and everybody says they liked the meal and want your recipe - and then a week later complains they can't get it to taste right with their gluten free substitutes.
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by brc on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:10PM (#8512892)
I know someone who is sure that her kids misbehave because of gluten, so she does everything to control their diet. At parties, she hovers around and takes cookies and cake and other things off them. The kids generally become whiny and behave badly. She usually puts this down to them slipping in some gluten while she want looking.

The other kids stuff their faces, roar around feeding off the energy of the party, and go home happy.

If we are going to talk about anything, it should be unhealthy obsessiveness with diets. Get some exercise, eat fresh foods for the most part. Go crazy and eat some ice cream ,pizza or chocolate cake once in a while. Job done.

Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by sopooneo on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:19PM (#8512916)
Is food nonsense filling the vacuum left by the decline of religion?
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by blahedo on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:18PM (#8512914)
So you lie to your friends and misrepresent what you're serving them, denying them control over what they put in their own body? It's one thing to not buy the whole gluten-free diet thing and say "I'm making good-tasting stuff that has gluten, take it or leave it," but what you describe here is pretty much just an asshole move.
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by bane on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:39PM (#8512990)
If you and your friends can't be assholes to each other, then who can you be an asshole to?
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by seandougall on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:13PM (#8512899)
The even better part is when you make assumptions about what you know about your friends and it turns out one of them is celiac and just hasn't had a biopsy to confirm. Making medical decisions for your friends without their knowledge is always a great idea.
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by bane on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:36PM (#8512972)
You'll know if you're celiac -- "vague" and "nonspecific" "maybe feel slightly bloated" are not symptoms of the disease.

They are however specific to the latest hypochondriac food fad that's swept the nation and as numerous controlled studies on random non-celiac populations are starting demonstrate with Science, are treatment for disorders (NCGS) that don't even exist.

It appears that "gluten sensitivity" industry (an $11 billion dollar industry) is now about to run its course, so the next fads are starting to spin up, FODMAPs or Frutates or whatever is probably the next big thing. And guess what my prediction is going to be, all those people who complain of vague non-specific NCGS will start eating Gluten again without any complaint and completely forget about it, while simultaneously froggering over to FODMAP free diets or whatever to deal with their vague non-specific hypochondriac symptomologies.

Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by PhantomGremlin on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:31AM (#8513844)
> You'll know if you're celiac -- "vague" and "nonspecific" "maybe feel slightly bloated" are not symptoms of the disease.

No, that's not true. My daughter has celiac disease; she has a severe version, so we found this out when she was about 4 years old.

However, in later life my mother suffered from serious food sensitivity problems. She wasn't diagnosed with celiac because that was 15+ years ago. Given my daughter's medical history, I'd bet even odds that celiac was exactly what my mother had, even though the serious problems didn't occur until old age. There is a very strong genetic component to the disease. Wikipedia discusses this at length, but I'm certainly not qualified to know how accurate that information is.

So it's quite possible that with less severe celiac, people only have mild symptoms or only develop severe symptoms late in life.

Sorry to quote Wikipedia, they're hardly authoritative, but I think this is a reasonable summary[1]:

   People with milder coeliac disease may have
   symptoms that are much more subtle and occur
   in other organs than the bowel itself. It is
   also possible to have coeliac disease without
   any symptoms whatsoever. Many adults with
   subtle disease only have fatigue or anaemia.
Edit: just wanted to add that information in this field is changing rapidly. When I requested a DNA test for my daughter about 8 years ago, her gastroenterologist was reluctant. He was admittedly quite surprised when my daughter turned out to have the problem alleles. So it's all "relatively new" even for one of the "experts" in the 19th most populous MSA in the United States.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease

Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by austenallred on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:05PM (#8512880)
As someone whose wife is severely allergic to gluten, please don't do that.
Re:A growing desire to avoid gluten is changing the food ind... by bane on Sunday October 26, 2014 @07:37PM (#8512978)
I wouldn't do it to people who I know have problems, which is why I said that.