Re: Re: More on gluten and diabetes, and fish oil

[Guest guest]

>There wasn't enough info to be sure, but they don't seem to have

>considered the possiblity that the reuction in diabetees was due to

>the decrease in carbs......

>

>not that i have any doubt that gluten can trigger diabetes, i'm just

>not sure their study proved it.

This writup doesn't say it specifically, but in another I read, they used

purified wheat gluten. That is, just the protein, no carbs. Purified wheat

gluten is used as a protein source in a lot of animal (and vegetarian

people) foods. It doesn't have any significant amount of carbs.

The other study compared wheat gluten with casein, and hydrolyzed

casein. The hydrolyzed casein did NOT cause T1 diabetes, but the

" raw " casein did.

Further, they have found with kids that react to wheat gluten,

taking away wheat gluten (but not carbs in general) causes the antibody that

causes T1 diabetes to go away. Not all T1 diabetes in humans is

related to wheat though, and taking away gluten doesn't help the ones

that are NOT sensitive to gluten. In any case, it seems to be related

to allergenic proteins, not starches.

T2 diabetes, OTOH, seems to be related to starches ...

-- Heidi Jean