Skeptoid #239: Gluten Free Diets
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
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🗓️ 4 January 2011
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.
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| 0:00.0 | Until only 10 or 20 years ago, there was no such thing as gluten sensitivity outside the |
| 0:09.7 | tiny number of people with actual celiac disease. |
| 0:13.1 | But suddenly it became a pop culture fad, and now just about every other person has |
| 0:18.1 | self-diagnosed as gluten intolerant. |
| 0:21.7 | A condition that disappears once blinding and controls are applied. |
| 0:25.8 | So is it true that a brand new condition could have so thoroughly swept the populations |
| 0:30.9 | of wealthy countries only? |
| 0:33.1 | Or is it possible that this important protein is not really so evil as it's made out to |
| 0:38.5 | be? |
| 0:39.5 | Gluten-free diets are coming up right now, unskeptoid. |
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