I have spent a lot of time learning about diet and health since I quit smoking at 50. I'm 56 now, so it's not like I spent 20 minutes on this. I take it seriously. I get much of my advice from someone who is a grad of Harvard Medical, so I prefer real science and there isn't a lot of that behind the Whole30 diet.
Whole30 has WAY more detractors than you probably want to believe since you are a fan. Do a quick Google search and you'll see it's nothing more than the newest diet fad/trend. Here are a few links for you. If you've done hundreds of hours of research you'd know it's a fad diet, so it's unlikely you've spent that kind of time on it. There are oodles of scientists, doctors and nutritionists calling this diet out as a fad and nothing more. The people who "started it" have no real nutritional education, they just call themselves Certified Sports Nutritionists. You and I can earn that title with a few hundred bucks and some online classes in a few months. They aren't experts and this diet has been widely trashed by the health and wellness community as a lousy fad diet.
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Gluten is perfectly fine to ingest, unless unless you have celiac disease and I didn't say anything about different degrees or increments. It's a great buzzword for people who don't understand what it really means and fad diets and food manufacturers have taken advantage of that. All you have to do is ask stranger "is gluten bad for you?" and listen to how many say "oh yes!".
As far as food allergies you are partially wrong. People are born with them and can develop them as a child, rarely as an adult. And sometimes they go away too.
Enjoy the links and like I said you're better of with the paleo stuff than one of the worst diet plans out there.
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The Whole30 is an established EXCLUSION diet to help people figure out what, if any, food types are causing them an issue.
It isn't a way of life, nor is it sold like that
It's been used by doctors who specialize in food intolerance for over 30 years.
It just happens that some super smart people decided to package it and use it for financial gain as a short-term plan. That is why every Whole30 includes a reintroduction process. Thet do not recommend you stay like that.
Btw, I didn't bother to point how wrong you were on gluten. You're correct with weight loss, wrong with everything else - people are not either celiac or ok, there are dozens of increments. Food intolerances by and large build up, we're rarely born with them
I've spent hundreds of hours looking into this and doing real research Les. I thought it was BS to begin with so went in with your mindset - somewhat.
I've spent scores of hours interviewing people including medical practitioners. I've been writing on it for 8-years.
Only recently I spoke with an oncologist who is now introducing the paleo approach for people on chemotherapy because it's been proven to reduce side effects in some patients.
No doubt you know more about it than somebody dealing with colo-rectal cancer and has *reluctantly* started to admit he may have got it wrong.
Science changes slowly. It's how it is.
Like you, scientists hate to be wrong and as such seek out evidence to support their beliefs rather than challenge them.
I set out to find proof AGAINST the Paleo system and guess what? I couldn't find any. that wasn't based purely in conventional thinking.
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