Showing posts with label gluten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gluten. Show all posts

Thursday, July 7, 2016

The great wheat crisis

When they say it, most of us pretty easily write them off as a bunch of nut-jobs.
 
But it cannot be denied that, in the space of less than a century, the wheat industry took something that had been synonymous with “nourishment” throughout man’s entire existence and turned it into a commercial, rather than a nutritional, hero. Even more sinister is the fact that farmers have been incentivized to grow something that may be killing people.

Is gluten killing you?




50 years ago, you never heard about anyone having a problem with gluten. Now it seems like everybody does. What’s going on? Should you care? Does it affect you?
 
What’s gluten? It is a protein in wheat, barley, and some other grains. When your baker mixes yeast into dough, gluten is the elastic stuff that allows the dough to form bubbles and rise so the bread isn’t hard as a rock.