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Originally Posted by GirthBrooks
My dad has a gluten allergy due to an auto-immune disease and for people that have an allergy it is no joke. Response is immediate and severe.
Do you believe that gluten free diets promote health benefits to people that do not have an allergy? If so, why?
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Gluten free diet is a pretty meaningless term. If you start buying processed food marked as gluten free, it's often worse than regular one. They have to replace gluten with something, and it's usually more sugar and chemicals that will cause even stronger inflammatory response than gluten. There's a huge difference between natural food like Paleo and process food marketed as gluten free, so you can't evaluate a diet based on gluten content alone. It really depends what you replace that food with. Celiac sufferers might be an exception, but I wouldn't even bet on that. You can prevent some intestinal damage, but screw up other parts of your body.
There's increasing evidence that auto immune disorders are a very complex issue and people react in different ways. You may not have a strong allergic reaction, but eating pasta and sugar all day will probably give you cancer, diabetics or alzheimer somewhere down the line, or at least lower your quality of life. It's best to see how your body reacts to different food, or be on the safe side and avoid pro inflammatory food, which is a lot more than gluten.