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Gluten Public Enemy
Gluten Public Enemy
The documentary begins with that statement, a mantra of many channels that promote a healthy diet by turning gluten into the public enemy. With the question of whether we are going crazy with a fashion that has neither head nor tail or if a gluten sensitivity epidemic is really on the rise. Gluten has become dangerous for the health of many people. In this documentary, scientists, activists and farmers are trying to discover the true properties of wheat to discover the origin of this intolerance. The intestines that fell into oblivionGluten Public Enemy a truth in expansion.
El documental empieza por un dato estadístico que muestra la existencia real de una dolencia infradiagnosticada, la sensibilidad al gluten y en caso extremo la celiaquía. Uno de los problemas para su diagnóstico es la variedad de sus síntomas, una variedad que se debe principalmente a que se está trastocando el equilibrio en ese órgano tan importante llamado intestino. Hinchazón abdominal, niebla mental, dolor de cabeza, de articulaciones, deficiencia de micronutrientes, insomnio etc... síntomas tan diversos y tan sutiles a veces, que es prácticamente imposible identificar una causa.The growth of Gluten Sensitivity.
This is not about spoiling, as the full documentary is worth watching. The analysis offered by the documentary is very well structured and analyzes several points that may play an important role in the escalation of gluten sensitivity.- Changes in wheat varieties in recent decades, changes driven mainly by the use of chemical fertilizers. A change that altered both the amount of gluten in the cereal and its nature. Taking into account the effect that this change produced in digestion.
- The changes in the way of growing wheat, caused by the intensive use of herbicides, whose use promoted transgenic varieties that allowed the crops to be fumigated in very early stages and finally even applying pesticides to wheat to force its maturation, especially in climates. where the heat and natural solar radiation is not enough to ripen the grains. All this entails a brutal amount of pesticides that we ingest every time we eat industrial cereals.
- Industrial processes to process grain prepare highly processed products that include bread that does not ferment long enough to pre-digest gluten, such as all products that are sold as alternatives to our breakfast, pastries, so-called breakfast cereals and many other products that fill more than half of the surface of our supermarkets.