Tito’s also advertises itself as “hand made”. How can a distilled product be hand made? Or am I missing something.
Advertising sure is interesting-could a bottled water brand also advertise as “handmade”?
“no robots were involved in the making of this product”?
The flipside is that once the fad ends it’ll be harder than ever to find anything you can eat.
ow often is that true, though?
That episode of South Park was hilarious, and it high-lighted the problem with the gluten-free fad, which is that people think it affects behavior and mood. Yes, I realize that if you are a celiac patient in pain, that will affect your mood, but that is not what I’m talking about. Gluten is the new sugar in that some parents are trying to remove it from their children’s diets in an effort to control their behavior. Some of the kids have real behavior problems, and the parents should be seeking professional help, instead of eliminating a healthy food group, and other children have nothing wrong with them (other than paranoid parents), and are being needlessly deprived. But because children naturally mature, and so behavior “improves” (which is to say, self-control does), no matter what you do to a child, a lot of people convince themselves that gluten-free diets are helping their children. You can shout “natural maturity,” and “regression to the mean” (parents usually try something radical like a gluten-free diet during a particularly trying time with a child) all day, and get nowhere. Some people don’t understand these concepts anymore than they understand how a Wankel rotary engine works.
Then, you get the parents who decide that if their children are doing better on gluten-free diets, maybe they, the parents would feel better on them as well. So they stop eating gluten, and convince themselves they feel better. They probably do because they are eating better on the whole because they are doing more cooking from scratch, but also because they are invested in the outcome, and don’t want to admit they don’t feel any different, so they convince themselves they feel great.
:smack: x 1,000
Makes me want to give someone who believes in homeopathy some water, and tell him that I got it from a swimming pool that had a eyedropper of vodka added to it, and was then agitated with a horsehair stick, and see if he gets gets drunk on it.
Actually a number of doctors don’t think it is a fad or that it will end, since celiac disease is on the rise and has actually been being diagnosed for over 20 years. Some gluten free products have been around a long time, though they used to have to be ordered and now they’re at Walmart. With the internet, I reckon I’ll find them as long as I need them.
I had a friend on another board (the board shut down) whose son was diagnosed with severe autism as a toddler, and they decided to try a GF diet, figuring they had nothing to lose. His condition improved so much, their doctors all believe the initial diagnosis was incorrect, but they keep him on the diet because the improvement in his quality of life (and that of his family too) is completely worth it.
I also saw a post on another board who decided to try preparing GF meals for the same reason. The child’s autism didn’t change, but her husband’s psoriasis, which had defied all standard treatments, cleared up even though she knew he was probably eating gluten outside the home. 
His dermatologist was impressed enough to recommend it to other patients, and another poster said that one of their therapists saw a huge improvement in her arthritis when she cut dairy out of her diet.
It’s on the rise because people know what it really is, and are looking for it. Celiac disease was once thought to be a disorder of fat digestion, and that children generally outgrew it. We now know that is incorrect.
I think homeopathy is entirely horseshit and I’m baffled how anybody can be so deluded as to take it seriously. However, FTR, that isn’t the sort of claim that homeopaths make. It’s supposed to be that the diluted-out-of-existence substance is supposed to produce the opposite of its regular effect; e.g., if you take caffeine diluted to 0.1 parts per gajillion, it supposedly would put you right to sleep.
What is a “horsehair stick”? A violin bow?
Celiac is a disease. “My child is something other than an inert lump and extension of my will, and I blame gluten because they wouldn’t make gluten-free products if it weren’t a toxin” is a fad.
I’m not quite sure what your point is here, Hershele.
The key point in your first paragraph is that the child was misdiagnosed. I worked with children and adults with autism for years. I never personally met anyone who was misdiagnosed, but there are documented cases of food allergies bringing on behavior changes, some of which look like autism. There are always other problems in addition to the autism-like symptoms, that sometimes go overlooked, because is relatively common, and behavior symptoms as a result of food allergies so rare, but children whose behavior problems are the result of food allergies often appear to be in pain much of the time, and seem to have sensitivity to light and sound that are extreme even for autism. They are also often withdrawn, and sometimes have behaviors around food that are odd even for autism. The last usually only comes out when their parents put them in a program for autistic children, and someone who has dealt with lots of autistic children says “I’ve never seen something like this (or, this extreme) before, and I’ve seen more than 100 autistic children; maybe you should have him checked for food sensitivities.”
Some people take away from that that “foods cause autism,” but that’s not the case. The case is that rare food allergies mimic autism in part.
Also, the “psoriasis” that cleared up may just have been a wheat allergy, and not psoriasis. Again, you can’t take away from that that wheat, or gluten causes psoriasis, but that a wheat allergy can be misdiagnosed as psoriasis.
Now, IANAD, and I don’t know the people involved, BUT I have known a child with a severe wheat allergy, and he could get a skin rash that a lot of people might mistake for psoriasis. Thing was, as long as he avoided wheat, no rash. That’s not the normal course of psoriasis.
I have no experience with dairy and arthritis, but I have known a couple of women who say that dairy makes their cramps worse when they eat it during their periods. My doctor speculated that it may just affect the way they metabolize pain medication. So if the person with arthritis was taking pain medication, dairy products may have interfered with it somehow.
I am. There are parents who are ready to blame anything from gluten to Canada-- but not themselves-- when their children misbehave. I know one. Every time her child had behavior problems in school, the mother removed another food from her kid’s diet, but she never set any limits for her kid. She was one of those parents who didn’t think her kid should ever hear the word “No,” because it would break her spirit, and interfere with her creativity. This was an only child who was the center of everything at home, and couldn’t understand why she wasn’t the center of everything everywhere. She needed to be sent to her room from time to time, and told “No,” firmly and calmly a couple of times a day, not a wheat-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, dye-free, artificial flavor-free, red meat-free, GMO-free, low salt, organic diet. (Plus, her parents were into homeopathy, and I don’t think she was vaccinated.) She needed to eat a damn cupcake really bad.
Sounds like her parents were setting her up for an eating disorder in the years to come. 
Reminds me of the Modern Family where Cameron and Mitchell are trying exactly this with Lily. Till Cameron has his hand in the garbage disposal and Lily is headed for the switch. Now will you say “No”?!