Type 1 Diabetes Linked To Immune Response To Wheat Many people
in the low carb community welcome this kind of finding in that
it reinforces the "carbs are evil and bread is the evilest of
carbs" thinking that often permeates that community. But before
we blame wheat for causing Type 1 diabetes it is worth looking a
little deeper. The fact is humans living in temperate climates
in the Northern Hemisphere have been eating wheat-based diets
for some five thousand years. But the sudden explosion of Type 1
diagnoses is about 30 years old. Back in my wheat-saturated
childhood in the 1950s Type 1 was extremely rare. I did not meet
a single person who had it until I was 23 years old and I
interacted with literally thousands of young people during that
time period. There was no one with Type 1 in my college dorm.
There was no one with Type 1 at work. Epidemiological studies
back up this anecdotal finding. The rate of development of Type
1 in children appears to have taken an upward turn in the 1970s
then it really got