Del Cecchi` wrote:

Atkins isn't an allergy reduction diet as I recall.

Then you utterly ignored all of the discussion of food
intolerances and the cravings they trigger. Plenty of folks
ignore vast portions of the Atkins books and treat his
process like all there is to it is counting calories. And
then they draw conclusions about Atkins based on
ignoring vast portions of the directions. Shrug.

And gluten is a
protein which I thought atkins allowed.

Whole grains are at the last rung of the Atkins carb ladder and
thinking that Atkins allows *any* food for *everyone* utterly
ignores all of the discussion of food intolerances and the
cravings they trigger. Plenty of folks ignore vast portions of
the Atkins process and then make conclusions about what's
allowed. Doesn't make those conclusions correct.

You really shouldn't paint things as "poison" or "addictive" just
because you personally are sensitive to them.

This is why I call wheat a "personal poison". Sure enough
that follows the Atkins system of eliminate and challenge as
described in the discussions of food intolerances and the
cravings they trigger. Once a food is found to trigger cravings
and/or other symptoms it is to be written off and avoided from
then on per the directions.

As to calling the cravings that result from eating untolerated
foods addictive, I stand by the description. I also stand by
my statement that folks who haven't had a grain free week
in their lives asserting they aren't addicted to grain is naive
foolishness based on lack of experimental data. How many
are addicted I don't know but anyone who eats grain daily
for their entire life is totally unqualified to deny being
addicted.

And cous cous is pasta.

It's wheat pellets about the same size as bulgar.

Bulgar is chopped up wheat.

It's wheat pellets about the same size as cous cous.

Thanks for the distinction on how cous cous and bulgar are
manufactured. Both are nearly pure wheat so why the article
called them lower in gluten is a mystery. It's so easy to
check that it makes other errors that much more glaring.