Gluten Can Kill You

I read an article called "Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You," by Dr. Mark Hyman, that is a great motivator to kicking off my next gluten, corn and soy free year. The article mentions a broad, new study that found that gluten increases the risk of death from cancer or heart disease in those who are sensitive.

Even scarier, 99% of people who are sensitive to gluten don't know it. "This is ground-breaking research that proves you don't have to have full-blown celiac disease with a positive intestinal biopsy (which is what conventional thinking tells us) to have serious health problems and complications--even death--from eating gluten."

The article goes on to list 55 other "diseases" that gluten can cause: "These include

• Osteoporosis,
• Irritable bowel disease,
• Inflammatory bowel disease,
• Anemia,
• Cancer,
• Fatigue,
• Canker sores,
• Rheumatoid arthritis,
• Lupus,
• Multiple sclerosis,
• Almost all other autoimmune diseases.

"Gluten is also linked to many psychiatric (vi) and neurological diseases, including

• Anxiety,
• Depression,
• Schizophrenia,
• Dementia,
• Migraines,
• Epilepsy, and
• Neuropathy (nerve damage).
• It has also been linked to autism.

One of my favorite quotes from the article is: "We used to think that gluten problems or celiac disease were confined to children who had diarrhea, weight loss, and failure to thrive. Now we know you can be old, fat, and constipated and still have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity.