Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says

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143. The points are simple.

He says gliadins are new. They're not.

He says they're not part of gluten. They are.

He says that they're not involved in things like celiac disease. They are.

He says that they're something new. They've been in wheat for at least a couple thousand years.

He says that they're (essentially?) opiates. No evidence of it. Otherwise we'd have been sitting around getting doped up on dinner rolls and gravy.

Granted, they show up in things like beer, but still ...

It's like tuning in to a tv show to hear commentary on President Obama's policies, and having the guy start off by saying that given Harry Obama's service in Bush I's administration as a white, middle-aged male, twice divorced ... At that point we'd just declare "LOL" and either sit back to ridicule the guy or flip the channel to something useful like Dressage for Dummies.