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Mayo Clinic
Gastroenterologist and Celiac expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; author of Mayo Clinic Going Gluten Free: Essential Guide to Managing Celiac Disease and Related Conditions
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Joseph Murray
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FROM Joseph Murray
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The Crusade against Gluten: Health, Hype and Big Money Gluten is a protein, which humans have been consuming for some 10,000 years, mainly as a component of wheat. For about one percent of the population, gluten causes celiac disease, which involves stomach problems. But now, some one third of Americans are trying to avoid gluten — so many that gluten-free food has become a $10 billion industry that’s still growing. The phenomenon is so much part of the culture that animated series South Park devoted a whole episode to it. Critics call it a fad based more on fear than science. In this rebroadcast of our November 27 discussion, we separate fact from fiction.
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Going Gluten-Free: Science or Fiction? Gluten is a protein, which humans have been consuming for some 10,000 years, mainly as a component of wheat. For about one percent of the population, gluten causes celiac disease, which involves stomach problems. But now, some one third of Americans are trying to avoid gluten — so many that gluten-free food has become a $10 billion industry that’s still growing. The phenomenon is so much part of the culture that animated series South Park devoted a whole episode to it. Critics call it a fad based more on fear than science. We separate fact from fiction.
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