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Gluten, Grains, Seeds, and Nuts... and the link to inflammatory disease.

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  Gluten, Grains, Seeds, and Nuts... and the link to inflammatory disease. Dear Reader: There has been increasing awareness of gluten sensitivity such that the latest health trend has been choosing gluten free products. It is not hard to find advertisements and entire sections in the grocery being devoted to the trend and it is curious to observe how the food industry is falling all over itself trying to capture their corner of the market.   The good news of all this is for the people people who are truly gluten sensitive to now find a variety of suitable foods in the grocery, without having to special order from the health food stores or bring a carry-in bag to the restaurant. It’s becoming mainstream! Depending on the sources, there are some estimated 1-6% of people who are adversely sensitive to gluten to the degree it creates clinical symptoms of gastric inflammation, and for those people, avoiding gluten is a must. However, it seems to me that people who are oth