So, in this context, a balanced diet means a diet that contains stuff associated with disease? Also, avoiding gluten by avoiding wheat would certainly mean a radical change, cuz there's wheat in everything, ya? But then, why is there wheat in everything?!? That is not a balanced diet.
I really have to wonder if that lecturer went through this process of reasoning the words that come out of her mouth. Oh wait, she's a lecturer, not a thinkerer.
Nah, on this forum, we are well aware of the wide array of unquestionably beneficial effects of cutting out wheat. It's literally unreasonable to argue that somehow these beneficial effects will turn 180 and become detrimental just cuz of pregnancy.
Here's a story to illustrate. I got hooked on golf and at some point decided to play as best I possibly could. Anyways, this meant significant changes to my diet, which meant cutting out wheat. It worked brilliantly. I did improve my game to such a high degree that I scored par for the course within a couple years. Obviously, cutting out wheat was just one of the many things that made this possible, but the point is it was one of the things that made this possible.
Now imagine I got hooked on anything else, or it's not me it's somebody else. Cutting out wheat will produce the same unquestionbly beneficial effects, which will be one of the things that make it possible, whatever it is. It could be riding a bike, running a marathon, learning a trade, getting a degree, a plain old job, or just enjoying life as you see fit.
Enter the dire warning about making radical changes to one's diet. Oh wait, nothing dire is gonna happen to anybody who cuts out wheat. Everybody is gonna improve their health, and in turn will derive benefits in whatever endeavor.
Apparently, it's only dire when we're making babies. Apparently, the unquestionably beneficial effects, which are unquestionably beneficial when we're doing stuff all kinds, become dangerous when we're making babies. So, what, women should avoid those unquestionably beneficial effects while pregnant? What about when the kid is born, keep doing that? At what point should these women, and their kids, be allowed to benefit from cutting out wheat, huh?
Dude, if a change provides unquestionably beneficial effects, it means nothing that it is also radical. Maybe it's because it's radical that it is unquestionably beneficial. I mean, merely reducing wheat intake won't be as unquestionably beneficial. It's gonna be somewhat beneficial. I mean, we should reduce our lead intake, ya? Dude, we shouldn't eat any lead - that's radical too.
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