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Buckwheat Crepes Revisited

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One of my most popular posts of all time was a recipe I published in 2010 for sourdough buckwheat crepes ( 1 ).  I developed this recipe to ...

Interview with Aitor Calero of Directo al Paladar

Posted by | 7:00 PM
Aitor Calero writes for the popular Spanish cooking and nutrition blog, Directo al Paladar ("straight to the palate").  We did a ...

Beyond Ötzi: European Evolutionary History and its Relevance to Diet. Part III

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In previous posts, I reviewed some of the evidence suggesting that human evolution has accelerated rapidly since the development of agricult...

Junk Free January

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Last year, Matt Lentzner organized a project called Gluten Free January, in which 546 people from around the world gave up gluten for one mo...

Gluten-Free January Survey Data, Part I: Demographics and Limitations

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Thanks to Matt Lentzner for organizing Gluten-Free January , and everyone who participated and completed the survey, we have a nice data set...
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Gluten-Free January Raffle Winners Selected!

Posted by | 10:38 PM
Raffle winners have been selected and shirts are on their way. You know who you are. Thanks to everyone who participated and filled out th...
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My Gluten-Free January

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I've been avoiding most gluten, particularly wheat, for over a year now. I never had obvious symptoms that I could clearly link to eati...
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Gluten-Free January Raffle!

Posted by | 10:22 AM
Hi, Gluten-Free January participants. Matt, Janine and I have collected about 200 survey responses at this point. So far, the results are ...
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Gluten-free January Participants: Take the Survey!

Posted by | 9:31 PM
Matt Lentzner, Janine Jagger and I have designed a survey for participants of Gluten-free January , using the online application StatCrunch ...
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Two Wheat Challenge Ideas from Commenters

Posted by | 10:08 AM
Some people have remarked that the blinded challenge method I posted is cumbersome. Reader "Me" suggested: You can buy wheat glute...
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Blinded Wheat Challenge

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Self-experimentation can be an effective way to improve one's health*. One of the problems with diet self-experimentation is that it...
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Eating Wheat Gluten Causes Symptoms in Some People Who Don't Have Celiac Disease

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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a condition characterized by the frequent occurrence of abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, bloating a...
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A Gluten-free January

Posted by | 8:00 AM
Are You Gluten Sensitive? Many people are totally unaware of the fact that they react poorly to gluten. Because they've been eating whe...
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The China Study on Wheat

Posted by | 9:32 PM
Denise Minger has just put up another great China Study post that's worth reading if you haven't already. Denise has been busy app...

Real Food XI: Sourdough Buckwheat Crepes

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Buckwheat was domesticated in Southeast Asia roughly 6,000 years ago. Due to its unusual tolerance of cool growing conditions, poor soils a...

Fermented Grain Recipes from Around the World

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In my last two posts on grains, I described how traditional food processing methods make grains more nutritious and digestible ( 1 , 2 ). I...

The Body Fat Setpoint, Part IV: Changing the Setpoint

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Prevention is Easier than Cure Experiments in animals have confirmed what common sense suggests: it's easier to prevent health problems ...

The Glycemic Index: A Critical Evaluation

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The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much an individual food elevates blood sugar when it's eaten. To measure it, investigators ...
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How to Eat Grains

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Our story begins in East Africa in 1935, with two Bantu tribes called the Kikuyu and the Wakamba. Their traditional diets were mostly veget...

Book Review: Dangerous Grains

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Dangerous Grains is about the health hazards of gluten grains. It's co-written by James Braly, an M.D. who specializes in food allergi...