Sunday, March 5, 2017

Katie Haidet - Gluten-free Diets

Summary: Many people over the years have done gluten-free diets. However this comes from celiac disease, which is “a digestive disorder in which your body is abnormally sensitive to gluten, a protein component of wheat, rye, barley and crossbreeds of those grains.” Now many Americans have decided to take on the gluten-free diet. It is known to have many health benefits aside from helping with celiac disease. In the 1940s, people with celiac disease had almost no mortality rate even with the lack of fruits and vegetables. Turns out that flour was made with potato starch and not wheat. In the 1970s, celiac disease was connected through a genetic immune response. Then in the 1980s, the use of describing someone as non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a condition that has the same symptoms of celiac disease but without the immune system damaging the intestines. Then more people saw giving up gluten as beneficial, until the 2010s, where it isn’t helpful for everyone, especially if you don’t have any gluten sensitivity to begin with.


Analysis: This article was published on CNN, a reliable news report. Most people have probably considered going gluten-free, so this article would be a good persuasion to become gluten-free. I know many people who have had to live gluten-free and this article really informed me all about this disease.There has been a lot of events in the past hundreds of years where people did not support each other  views which only led to more conflicts and groups with opposing views. Just like the democratic and republican parties. We are humans and we are allowed to have different opinions on things. 

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