It makes me cringe to see people adopting unnecessarily restrictive diets. Recently it has come to my attention that some bloggers in the autoimmune paleo realm are recommending a low FODMAP diet as an "anti-inflammatory" protocol. This approach is just flat out not supported by science. Period. Unless you have fructose intolerance or SIBO, or are pursuing an oligoantigenic elemental diet due to acute gastrointestinal damage, please do not undertake a low FODMAP regimen. Even

Who else gets an occasional hankering for oats at breakfast? Slow cooked, steel cut oats used to be a breakfast staple in my pre-paleo days. And I always thought I was safe---after all, they don't contain the proteins found in wheat, barley, or rye that elicit an immunological response in celiac disease---right? WRONG. Because grains are grown, harvested, transported, and stored together, cross-contamination of oats with gluten is rampant (Fric et al., 2011). Moreover, there