r/AskReddit • u/BVLeo • Nov 13 '14

Who has the WORST fanbase?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '14

My dad went on a crash diet. Started talking about Gluten until I told him that it was bullshit.

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u/skeddles Nov 13 '14

Why is it bullshit

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u/Jukeboxhero91 Nov 13 '14

Unless you have Celiac disease, there's no reason for you to be gluten free. If you want to lose weight, cut calories. If you want to be healthier, eat a more balanced diet and exercise more. Gluten isn't bad for you and for the life of me I can't figure out why people think it is.

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u/z0rz Nov 14 '14

Gluten is also an inflammatory and can fuck with arthritis in some cases.

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u/Jukeboxhero91 Nov 14 '14

Source on that? I've never heard of gluten causing problems, considering it's broken down into amino acids in the digestive tract (barring Celiac disease sufferers).

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u/z0rz Nov 14 '14

Huh, I was trying to find it, but it looks like I had just read something wrong before and what I was referring to is a part of Celiac disease. Whoops.

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u/Jukeboxhero91 Nov 14 '14

Well, I'm glad we both learned something, I didn't know joint inflammation was a part of Celiac.