Wednesday, May 05, 2010  Is it an Error to Be Relatively Gluten
Free?  A listener from the recent virtual book tour asks: Are
there degrees of gluten sensitivity, or is it an all or nothing
thing?  I really liked this question because all too often I
hear people say: "I don't have celiac disease, I'm JUST gluten
sensitive." This statement usually is part of a conversation
justifying why they don’t feel the need to be perfect on their
diet.  At this time, based on all the research to hand, gluten
sensitivity seems to be an “all or nothing” proposition. The
reason, I believe, that some people think they can have some
gluten with impunity goes to how their body reacts to it. We are
often wedded to the concept that if a food bothers us we’ll
undoubtedly suffer from digestive problems. But this is only
true about 25% of the time. So the with the other 75%, people
develop symptoms that are non-digestive and often take many
hours and up to a few days to develop. If you “cheat” on Monday
and Wednesday you develop bra