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EventsChicken with oriental “couscous”
March 6 2015 by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
in Diet Doctor’s LCHF
in Diet Doctor’s LCHF 
Dinner at our house recently: chicken with oriental “couscous”.
And no, it’s not real couscous. It’s based on the #1 vegetable for low-carb high-fat fans. Feel free to leave your guess/answer in the comments.
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The show was patently biased and ill-researched. Sadly for CBC's already diminished credibility, on February 27, 2015, about the same time CBC's anti-Davis hit piece episode was aired proclaiming definitive "scientific" assertions that only celiacs are affected by gluten, Dr. Alesso Fasano et al published definite proof (based on intestinal biopsies) that EVERYONE gets leaky gut from the gliadin in gluten. It is just a question of degree. Then it is a question of which undigested proteins get inside the blood and how they wreak havoc with the immune system and what neurotoxic effects they cause in the brain. The symptoms are variable and diverse because it depends in large part what else you are eating at the same time and the overall state of your immune system.
Effect of gliadin on permeability of intestinal biopsy explants from celiac disease patients and patients with non-celiac gluten sensitivity.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25734566/
"CONCLUSIONS: Increased intestinal permeability after gliadin exposure occurs in all individuals."
It is no surprise (to those of us accustomed to CBC) that the CBC episode neglected to mention Dr. Fasano at all or ANY of his research. Even before this year, Dr. Fasano had already shown there was non-celiac gluten sensitivity and identified the role of zonulin. Dr. Davis cites this and CBC has no excuse, other than pursuing an agenda. What agenda might that be, you might ask the government broadcaster for a major world producer of wheat. No conflict here.
CBC also made no mention of Dr. Davis's Track Your Plaque clinic and what they learned about altering diet to reduce calcification of coronary arteries, as measured through successive CT scans and CAC scores, in thousands of patients. And what dietary measures would those be? Hint: read Wheat Belly. But in the CBC episode, Dr. Davis's dietary prescription is based on nothing more than his own personal epiphany after rejecting wheat and losing weight, and a few mere anecdotes. Again, the facts were easily accessible, but didn't make it into the episode. Instead, we get a creepy scene where the narrator and Dr. Yoni Freedhoff munch and moan orgasmically together in a dimly lit restaurant savouring their serving of wheat. I hope their GI tracts heal in time for their dessert of comeuppance, which they may find a little difficult to digest.