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Front-Ranger:
Thanks for the link. Yes, it was a good article.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 31, 2014, 07:50:12 pm ---You have to read it in a PDF version on their site, meaning you have to open to the page, then scroll up and down the individual columns as you read because you can't enlarge it enough to read, while keeping it on a whole page of your computer (at least I can't on mine).
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Eeew. :(
Jeff Wrangler:
The Food Issue doesn't usually do much for me, but today I enjoyed the piece on cruise-ship dining (though it reinforced my lack of interest in going on a cruise), and I'm looking forward to the article on gluten-free eating.
Jeff Wrangler:
Well, I did find Michael Spector's article on gluten interesting, but also confusing. I get it that wheat, rye, and barley contain gluten, but what about corn, oats, and rice?
I was also kind of annoyed by a paragraph that had nothing to do with gluten. Spector denounces margarine as a bad fat, and goes on to say that for decades people were encouraged to eat it because the saturated fat in butter was considered even more dangerous. Then he goes on to say that data from the famous Nurses' Health Study showed that women who ate four teaspoons--teaspoons!--of margarine a day had a 50% greater risk for heart disease than women who ate no margarine. But he doesn't compare the margarine eaters to butter eaters. :(
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 05, 2014, 02:28:49 pm ---Well, I did find Michael Spector's article on gluten interesting, but also confusing. I get it that wheat, rye, and barley contain gluten, but what about corn, oats, and rice?
I was also kind of annoyed by a paragraph that had nothing to do with gluten. Spector denounces margarine as a bad fat, and goes on to say that for decades people were encouraged to eat it because the saturated fat in butter was considered even more dangerous. Then he goes on to say that data from the famous Nurses' Health Study showed that women who ate four teaspoons--teaspoons!--of margarine a day had a 50% greater risk for heart disease than women who ate no margarine. But he doesn't compare the margarine eaters to butter eaters. :(
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I can see where both would be annoying.
From what I know, I believe the answers are: corn, oats and rice don't have gluten, and margarine is worse for you than butter. Saturated fat is no longer thought to cause clogged arteries or heart disease. You might want to double-check both with Google. For more on the butter topic, look for a book called 'The Big Fat Surprise' by Nina Teicholz, a journalist who spent nine years investigating the standard weight-loss advice to avoid fat.
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