Gluten and sugar
Sir, The case of Professor MacDougall who cured his multiple sclerosis after twenty years, with a gluten-free diet excluding refined carbohydrates, has given hope to thousands of sufferers, many of whom might derive benefit from following his example.
May we offer a leaflet on this diet free for a stamped addressed envelope to all interested readers, especially those concerned with mental hospitals, homes for incurables and visiting the sick? It was originally designed for sufferers from coeliac disease and it can have dramatic effects on these cases within a month, but multiple sclerosis takes longer to show improvement. There is also evidence of benefit to schizophrenia cases, and hospital trials of the diet under medical supervision would be of great value.
This diet can do no one any possible harm, in fact more people live on gluten-free rice, maize and millet than on wheat, oats, barley and rye which contain gluten. Perhaps the best demonstration of health and vigour on a gluten-free diet is Chairman Mao, who went swimming in the Yangtse river in his seventies.
Lawrence D. Hills Director-Secretary, Henry Doubleday Research Association, 20 Convent Lane, Bocking, Braintree, Essex
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