The raison d'etre of this website is to provide you with hard scientific information which may help you make informed decisions in your quest for health (so far I have blogged concise summaries of over 1,500 scientific studies and have had three books published).

My research is mainly focused on the effects of cholesterol, saturated fat and statin drugs on health. If you know anyone who is worried about their cholesterol levels and heart disease, or has been told to take statin drugs you could send them a link to this website, and to my statin or cholesterol or heart disease books.

David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Tuesday 11 May 2010

Grains and beans containing lectin cause rheumatoid arthritis

Published in the British Journal of Nutrition (2000), 83:207-217 Cambridge University Press

Modulation of immune function by dietary lectins in rheumatoid arthritis
Loren Cordain a1 c1, L. Toohey a1, M. J. Smith a1 and M. S. Hickey a1
a1 Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA

This paper can be accessed at: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=880100
 
Dr. Cordain observes how dietary lectins (common in beans, grains, some vegetables and fruits) can be the cause of rheumatoid arthritis, and that by eliminating lectins from the diet will see a reduction in the disease.

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