
Health Hazards
by Vic Shayne, PhD If you have a chronic health problem that just won’t go away, you should seriously consider getting off gluten. What is gluten? It’s a protein substance found in grains, including barley, wheat and rye.
Is Gluten Behind YOUR Health Problems? | NutritionResearchCenter.org
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-97497" title="RoIrving-pig" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/02/RoIrving-pig.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="336" /> In the summer of 2004, a 6-month-old girl who lived in the southeastern part of the Netherlands — prime, intensive hog-farming country — went in for surgery for a birth defect of her heart. As is routine in the Netherlands, which has excellent hospital infection control, she was checked before surgery for MRSA, the drug-resistant bacterium that can live on the skin without causing infections and can be unwittingly transmitted from one patient to another.

