Today I am going back to talk to you about a topic that is very close to my heart: having a diet blog, every day I find myself reading many “judgments” about nutrition, healthy eating, the right methods to lose weight, which at 80% about or are unfounded and bogus, or are partially true, but with the risk that those who read them may take them at face value , ending up changing their diet in a very restrictive way, and ending up in the classic frying pan on the grill. I give an example. Read an article on the internet where a neurology professor wrote a book where he says all grains are bad, and in particular the gluten contained in them is the main cause of modern diseases. In short, a fairly heavy thing. Then, he is a doctor. Sure he’s not a dietician, but he’s a doctor, he’ll know what he says, right? In spite of the incredible amount of research that says that except for those who are celiac, gluten is harmless and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to establish a sensitivity to gluten (a kind of minor celiac disease), in the book the doctor is very good to avoid them all, and find others with which to build his arguments. In order not to be impressed, the reader should be so seasoned as to take these speeches with pliers, read up and draw his conclusions. But then, a lot of articles repeat what the doctor also said, we talk about gluten free fashion, supermarket shelves are filled with gluten-free products, people around you do not know what gluten is but now everyone they are convinced that it does very badly . Evidence continues to be few, but who needs it?
There. Substitute gluten for any food or food category (animal proteins, sugar, refined foods) and you will find more or less similar examples. Today I’m talking about whole foods.