Comment by marta_morena_29 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by marta_morena_29 | Hacker News Reader

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This made me laugh. You read tons of scientific papers? Good for you. As anyone with an auto-immune disease and seriously interested in healing can tell you: AIP, if followed to the letter, works absolute wonders within even just a single god-damn day. But sure, read your papers... I am sure they are funded by people who have a huge interest in the result that you can cure 30% of the general population by merely changing their eating habits, as opposed to prescribing drugs that cost a fortune and going through all the hoops of the expensive medical system. Yeah, sounds really clear to me, these papers have it right.

> tend to forbid gluten intake

They don't tend to. Any diet who doesn't absolutely forbid gluten intake doesn't work. Simple as that. Gluten is one of the primary factors of developing auto-immune diseases and ergo also treating them.

> whole grain

Yeah better. Totally :). Because as opposed to white bread, whole grain bread contains all the goodies of mother nature in full force, like all the poison these flowers made against mammals to survive digestion. Bon appetite!

> get cancer from all the anti imflammatory stuff.

Totally makes sense. Yeah, eat healthy and you get cancer. You really made my day :D. You are just randomly mixing totally unrelated research results into something that is utterly wrong.

Good luck on your journey!

I down-voted this comment for its tone. This is a thorough and well-informed rebuttal of the parent comment, but it's buried under an unnecessary layer of sass and sarcasm. I appreciate your passion, but we can do better than this.

What is thorough and well-informed about the comment? Genuine question.

I was being generous. :)

People new to HN need to be introduced to the culture here without being deterred entirely from commenting again in the future. This way, others can engage the new user on the merit of their ideas (right or wrong) rather than on their tone.

Generosity notwithstanding, the comment did contain a grain of truth (heh) in that a good strategy for cutting through the contradictory tendency of dietary science is focusing on what works for many people in practice. (At least, that's what I remember; it's flagged now so I can't read it anymore.)

You are making too many assumptions here.

I’m not comparing AIP with chemotherapy.

I’m comparing specific AIP recommendations with research which might have other recommendations.

In this case eating the (sometimes 10xmore) expensive gluten free, “everything free” foods vs eating “normal” foods.

After reading results which show that eating whole grains gives better outcomes measured on the EDSS scale in the same period of time compared to eating white bread or not eating bread at all, what am I supposed to think?

The “normal” bread industry is funding science to opress the gluten free crowd?

And gluten is just one tiny piece of this puzzle.

My point is that I’m leaning towards reading about as much factors which play a role in my wellbeing, and then weighing my options with some kind of understanding about how they work, instead of accepting one size fits all solutions.

> Gluten is one of the primary factors of developing auto-immune diseases and ergo also treating them.

Really going to post this with no sources?

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