Charlize Theron Calls "BS" on Gluten-free Diet Fadists

If the President's wife can starve every school kid in America, then we should be able to change our own diets without any words from celebrities. She is not a RD either! My blood pressure went down fifty points and my insulin requirements are down 89%. It is not just a FAD!

Who cares what celebrities think? They should stick to what they know...acting, singing, etc...or in the case of the Kardashians, nothing!

Chelsey should have sent her the gluten-free cupcakes

From Trader Joes! Amazing!!!! Don't taste like cardboard.

I was diagnosed with celiac and have read "Brain Grain"

By Dr Perlmutter. After reading his book I have

suggested gluten free diets to friends for various health

reasons and many feel better. Everyone has a right to

their opinion and everyone has the right to ignore their opinion especially when it is an uneducated opinion.

Tell her it's not BS, it's diarrhea!!!

As a mom to two celiac children, I know people doing this by choice are making restaurants take us less seriously, but at least they are providing more options because there's a bigger market for it. I'll take all the help I can get.

"The hype associated with gluten is generated by money hungry a**holes"

 

Are you serious? That remark has about as much depth as if said by a child. For me, diagnosed with celiac disease 15 years ago, I am grateful for the "money hungry a**holes", as you put it, because it was absolutely a hell trying to find food to eat safely that wouldn't continue to kill me from inside. I am grateful for whatever movement that helps gluten free products become more mainstream, because it means I can have a normal life. The last thing I want to read is some self-important self-righteous nincompoop saying anything negative about gluten free diets or products, that could in any way be part of a larger push against the success of gluten free product manufacturers, who have changed my life for the better. People like you are not helping, you are the problem. It's like politics today, why do you have to care what other people are doing with a gluten free diet, whether or not they have celiac disease? Just mind your own business, please.

Thank you, Rick. You just wrote the perfect comment.

Apparently they didn't make the good kind of gluten free cupcakes... There is a difference! Even if it is a fad being gluten-free is a lifestyle just like someone being vegan.

If this article is true, Ms. Theron comments border on hate speech. Yes there are silly, confused people, like her, that think gluten is a sugar (i.e. equating gluten free to sugar free). But it takes on average about 10 years to diagnose celiac disease, and maybe some of the folks trying the diet actually feel better for that reason (occult celiac) or who knows what reason. Who cares, let people eat what they want to eat. I do not like tattoos, but you do not see me on social media trashing folks that get tattoos, because it would be rude and uncivilized.

One more comment: I realize this show happened last May (it is now September) and was all over the news then, and I happily managed not to know about it. Sadly here it is and I just read about it. Made my day in a bad way.

I have to agree in a way--when I want a baked good, I want it to taste real. I don't want it sweetened with fruit juice or agave (or worse, raisins/dates!). I want it to taste decadent. Not "gluten free." I'm not doing this to lose weight or get rid of sugar. I'm gluten free because gluten makes my bowels bleed.

 

I also have a tendency to roll my eyes when I see any of the following words used in the same sentence as "gluten": Naturopath, chiropractor, brain fog, leaky gut. The first two are not people who should be diagnosing your celiac disease. The last two are not real medical diagnoses/symptoms. I'm so tired of people self-diagnosing with gluten sensitivity because, "I get confused when I eat gluten."

 

Stuff like that just makes it harder for the rest of us, because people think that nothing bad will happen if we eat gluten, or that we're making it up/crazy. Or they get it in their heads that it's like lactose intolerance. And bazillions of people who have lactose intolerance go on and eat dairy. Soooo ...

I tell them it increases my chance of cancer 10 fold, then they stop.

Since you mentioned it, please give a citation to a study that has cast doubt on non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Sorry- you may scratch my earlier comment as I found the study you referred to further down the list. But I still think it would have been best to cite it or at least list it before this article to avoid the confusion I and others may have felt.

She can suck all the gluten she wants, maybe go to college or READ a book or a magazine, or clean her own house. Who really cares what she thinks? Airhead.