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>Lin Goldkrantz quoted from the article:
>
>In yesterday's edition, Dr. Mark Hyman had an article, Can Food Change 
>Your Genes, subtitled...New research shows how nutrition can help prevent 
>certain diseases.
>
>He is "a leading practitioner in "nutrigenomics, which studies the 
>relationship between food and genes...to explain how four common 
>conditions can be cured before they cause lasting damage."  (Please note, 
>this is in quotes. I'm not saying celiac can be "cured.")
>
>...Insulin resistance: 'the obesity disease,
>...Folic acid deficiency: not just a problem for pregnant women,
>...Low vitamin D: a result of lives spent indoors,
>AND Gluten sensitivity: the great masquerader!!!!
>
>For each area, he gave the background, "you may have...." (related 
>diseases for which someone might have a genetic predisposition), and "what 
>you can do".
>
>
>*******

Having read the article, I think it's both disingenuous, and perhaps a bit 
dangerous, for the author to represent this as explaining how these 
conditions can be cured, or that it necessarily has to do with a curative 
relationship between the food you eat and your genetic makeup. The food 
never affects the genes--the genetic predisposition determines what foods 
one should or shouldn't eat. Not one of the situations described offers any 
new insight. In each case, a problem or deficiency is identified, and a 
life-long change in diet is advised as a way of controlling the problem or 
eliminating the deficiency. How is that different from what all of us with 
celiac do every day? It's great that celiac is getting press since it is so 
prevalent, but this doctor's prescription is no cure.


Joe Ellison
Chicago, IL
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