"Cancer is caused by many different processes and inflammation is one of them, and if you could inhibit that process it would be tremendously helpful, " says Young S. Kim, program director in the Nutritional Science Research Group at the National Cancer Institute.

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Because gluten exposure damages the small intestine in those with celiac disease, causing nutritional deficiencies, research has revealed that multiple parts of the body can be affected, including the brain.

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The company has also opened a manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China and research facilities in Singapore and India for new nutritional products.

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First of all, understand that there's a body of research that has come out, the University of Pennsylvania, a nutritional anthropologist whose name is Shiriki Kumanyika.

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The issue has come to the fore in a warning letter that FDA recently sent to Medical Doctors Research (MDR), a Florida-based researcher and manufacturer of nutritional supplements.

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