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Hello everyone,
There was a link posted about Donald Kasarda's research into the
possibility that the rise in Celiac Disease could be attributed to an
increase in the Gluten content of wheat as a consequence of wheat breeding.
(Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/aov6x4g)  It is an interesting
article and I thank Tricia for bringing it to our attention.  One of Mr.
Kararda's main points was that this rise is Celiac Disese could be
attributed to Vital Wheat Gluten.

Please be aware that Donald Kasarda is associated with the UD Department of
Agriculture.  The article was published by the American Chemical Society,
which should raise some red flags.  When reading the article, please keep
these two facts in mind.

The following is from
http://www.celiacdiseasecenter.org/E_About/E04-pMABoard.htm

Donald D. Kasarda, PhD
Collaborator, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Western Regional Research Center

Dr. Kasarda received his PhD in physical chemistry from Princeton
University. Subsequently, he held research positions with Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute,
University of California Medical School, San Francisco, CA.

He then joined the USDA's Western Regional Research Center in Albany, CA,
where he was a research chemist, project leader, and research unit leader
until his retirement in 1999. He retains an association with the Center as
a Collaborator. Dr. Kasarda is also an Associate in the Experiment Station
at the University of California, Davis, in the Department of Agronomy and
Range Science. His research has focused on the structure of grain storage
proteins, especially the gluten proteins of wheat, and, for the past 30
years, has collaborated with various medical research groups in attempts to
define the basis for the activity of these proteins in celiac disease.

He serves as an advisor to several celiac patient support groups, providing
dietary guidance concerning the safety of various grains and of processed
foods that might contain active wheat, rye, or barley proteins (or active
peptide fragments derived from them).

Dr. Kasarda has published 19 papers related to celiac disease (out of 120
total) and has been an invited speaker at the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, and 9th
International Symposia on celiac disease. He has been awarded the Thomas
Burr Osborne Medal of the American Association of Cereal Chemists for his
studies of gluten proteins and the U.K.'s Rank Prize for Nutrition (J.
Arthur Rank Foundation) in part for his research on celiac disease.

Regards,


Maureen

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