Hardywood Founders Discuss the Changing Beer Landscape and the Launch of Their New Brand, Suncrush

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  1. Seanhillmusiccleaner

    Seanhillmusiccleaner Initiate (0) Jul 15, 2014 Illinois

    Low alcohol, low carb, low gluten (?), fruit-infused.

    Yeah, no thanks. I’d rather have a beer.
     
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  2. TheInsomniac

    TheInsomniac Initiate (0) Jan 11, 2015 New Mexico

    The Celiac Disease Foundation has a large vested interest in gluten sensitivity. This food fad has done wonders for increasing awareness of and providing food options for actual celiac sufferers.

    The first "research" you posted is nothing more than a literature review... of a lot of bad literature of the exact kind that doesn't stand up to confirmation.

    The second is exactly the kind likely to be subjected to the placebo effect. "NCGS was defined as symptoms responsive to a gluten-free diet (GFD) in the setting of negative celiac serology."

    What are those "symptoms?" They are people self-reporting how they feel on the diet, which is a terrible way to conduct research. Not double-blind, no crossover, etc.

    Here is what an actual direct study of gluten intolerance looks like:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591881/

    Or here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29380821

    For the latter study: "This is the first demonstration of the existence of NCGS in children." There were 11 children who tested positive after this double-blind, controlled trial. They started with 1114 who claimed to have chronic GI symptoms. That's 1%. And, among those 11, it's very likely that at least some were false positives.

    So, at best, if gluten intolerance exists, it is incredibly rare. Nowhere near the prevalence people claim it is (in the children, 99% of them have something else going on).
     
  3. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
    In Memoriam

    Thanks for the links, etc. Interesting patterns of results in these studies.
     
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