On 5-3-2016 10:52, clipka wrote:
> Am 05.03.2016 um 10:07 schrieb Thomas de Groot:
>> On 4-3-2016 19:01, clipka wrote:
>>>> Now everyone's blaming gluten, so wheat's gotta go.  (Anyone taking
>>>> bets?)
>>>
>>> You're gonna fart more frequently? :P
>>>
>>
>> It is crazy. Because about 0.6 percent of population has a gluten
>> problem, everybody needs to stop eating it?
>
> It could be worse.
>
> Because a fraction of the population had a hypothyreosis problem (*),
> everybody needed to /start/ eating iodine a few decades ago.
>
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Yes, there is that too.

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> Same with gluten-free food: It's augmented, so there's more money to be
> made with it than with conventional food, so we all need to eat it.

Absolutely.

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>> Nowadays, eating is not about... eating (and enjoying it btw) it is
>> about ingesting certain chemical compounds and avoiding others, if one
>> believes the /vox populi/.
>
> /vox propagandi/ would be more to the point.
>

It is a clever mixture of both I guess and who starts what is often 
difficult to reconstruct. Mostly /propagandi/ probably.

-- 
Thomas

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