Wouldn’t it be nice if it were that easy to take care of celiac disease, or gluten intolerance? Even though these researchers spent 25 years developing this treatment it just another example of a high-tech Band-Aid that does not address the underlying issue.

Gluten affects far more than the intestine, as you can read in the links below, and this expensive treatment would only focus on the intestinal complications.

Most of the time I can provide a simple, inexpensive and natural solution to this problem--just avoid the wheat to begin with. Alternatively, you could select different parents, but this would involve radical restructuring of the time dimension and most of us don’t know how to do that yet. So we are just left with avoiding certain foods that negatively affect us.

As I said last week:

Grains are one of the main reasons why most people are getting sick in our country. Intestinal intolerance called celiac disease is only a minority of the problem they cause. It is interesting though that the incidence of celiac disease is 50 times higher than previously thought.

My estimation is that over 85 percent of the population would benefit from avoiding grains; yes even whole organic grains. However, clearly there are some people who not only tolerate grains but also actually benefit from them. Usually these are people who are Metabolically Typed as carbo types.

The primary reason that grains cause problems is that they disturb insulin levels. There is more information on that in the links below if you are not familiar with this relationship.

In the early spring of 2003, Putnam will be publishing my first major book called The No-Grain Diet, which will be available in bookstores throughout the United States and beyond. The No-Grain Diet will address the issues in the article above and more; even more important, it will provide you with a comprehensive and practical approach to implementing an individualized dietary plan that, with the aid of Metabolic Typing, leads to your healing, ideal weight and optimal health.

In addition to its focus on my nutrition plan, what will set The No-Grain Diet apart from other dietary and health books is my focus on maintaining the healthy habits you adopt; whether people change their diet to lose weight, heal a disease, guard against illness or simply improve their health, they are often successful at the start.

However, as time goes by, most fall right back into the old patterns that sabotaged their health in the first place. This is because there was only a focus on changing negative physical habits, not changing negative emotions contributing to those habits. In The No-Grain Diet, I will show you how, by using EFT, you can eliminate those negative emotions and far more easily maintain your healthy nutrition plan and lifestyle for good.

As for the gluten referenced in the article above, it is a protein in wheat, barley, rye, oats and spelt and can cause problems in many individuals that are completely independent of its disruption of insulin homeostasis.

As for grains in the human diet overall, there is fairly strong Paleolithic evidence that 10,000 years ago most humans did not consume many grains. They were hunter-gatherers who subsisted mostly on vegetables and meats. Ten thousand years is a mere blip in a biological sense for humans--over 99 percent of our genetic make-up was in place, in fact, before we ever started consuming grains.

When considered from this perspective alone, it is not too surprising that grains can cause a wide array of health issues: contemporary humans have not suddenly evolved mechanisms to incorporate the high carbohydrates from starch- and sugar-rich foods into their diet.

Some of my patients ask me why, if grains "are bad," the Bible would reference them as acceptable. I am no biblical scholar and so cannot comment on whether the words used in the Bible (and translated from original sources) actually mean "grains" or food in some larger sense.

But I am not making an absolute blanket statement that grains "are bad;" instead, I am stating that most of us would definitely benefit by either drastically reducing or eliminating them from our diet, and throughout Mercola.com, and in my forthcoming book, The No-Grain Diet, I show you why.

Contacts

• University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research: 001-800-492 5538.
• Website: www.celiaccenter.org
• For help on starting a gluten-free diet, visit www.inside-story.com
• UK website for sufferers of coeliac disease: www.coeliac.co.uk
• A good US website: www.celiac.com
• University of Chicago Celiac Disease Program (UCCDP): (773) 702-7593

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