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<channel><title><![CDATA[Celiac Disease & Gluten-free Diet Information at Celiac.com - Comments for article: High Levels of Oxidative DNA Damage in Children with Celiac Disease]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com</link><description /><language>en-us</language><copyright><![CDATA[http://www.celiac.com]]></copyright><generator>N/A</generator><webMaster>scott@celiac.com</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:32:57 PDT</lastBuildDate><ttl>20</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #1]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7224</link><description><![CDATA[What neither the study abstract, nor this restatement of it, disclose is how long the children had been on the gluten free diet.  Had all children in group 'b' been on a gluten free diet since birth?  Or had they been diagnosed subsequent to birth, and therefore exposed to gluten for some length of time?  In addition, there is no mention of the mothers of these children.  If the children were gluten free from birth, were their mothers living gluten free while pregnant?

It seems to me that in order to draw the conclusion that the DNA damage cannot be attributed to diet alone, a study would have to control for these factors.  If they want to draw conclusions regarding whether or not diet or something else is at work on the DNA of Celiac children, they would have to use a group of children whose mothers had observed strict gluten free diets throughout pregnancy and who then themselves were on strict gluten free diets from birth.  

If they did exercise such strict controls, they do not mention it in their abstract, and Mr. Adams does not probe the study for it.  Without such strict controls, the study's conclusion that something other than diet is impacting DNA cannot be considered valid.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by CeliBelli at 9:26 am, Sat 25th Sep 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (CeliBelli)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:26:29 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #2]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7239</link><description><![CDATA[The influence of gluten ingested from airborne sources needs to be considered when celiac on gluten free and non-gluten free diets are being studied.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Gloria Brown at 10:48 am, Mon 27th Sep 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Gloria Brown)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:48:33 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comment #3]]></title><link>http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7243</link><description><![CDATA[More proof that we don't really understand celiac yet. We're only seeing one piece of it (the damage to the stomach and digestion, the autoimmune syndrome). People with celiac are more likely to have problems with yeast overgrowth, heavy metal toxicity, fibromyalgia, etc., even long after they've eliminated all gluten from their diets. I really hope the medical communities will pick up on this and start looking at celiac more holistically.<br/><br/>
(Comment posted by Clarkie at 2:43 pm, Mon 27th Sep 2010)]]></description><author>no@spam.com (Clarkie)</author><pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:43:43 PDT]]></pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.celiac.com/articles/22290/1/High-Levels-of-Oxidative-DNA-Damage-in-Children-with-Celiac-Disease/Page1.html#Comment7243</guid></item></channel></rss>