I'm sorry but the whole concept of a linear relationship...give up starch and you'll get better, eat starch and you'll get sick.... (which sometimes seems to be taken as a given in threads) has to be viewed in the context of whole body intelligence. Who's to say that, like some 'strange attractor' the pattern set up within the body in terms of reactions to starch tends to linger a while after cessation of starch, or that starch molecules linger a while too.
The other factor besides cheating folk in studies (again an element that's very difficult to hold constant) is people's judgement of what contains starch and also hidden starches, e.g. in the morphing of cooked sugar. Starch is ubiquitous as we know.
How many of us have had someone say to them, 'oh but surely a little can't do any harm?'... and one grits one's teeth and grins. But how many also say that to themselves?
Another factor is unknown reactions between the body's attempts to protect itself from starch and perhaps counteractive measures to protect against an individual's other imbalances..peculiar to that person.
This is why I feel one needs to be extremely patient and give oneself at least a year before judging. In the interim we have to rely heavily on anecdotal evidence and in the final analysis no one will give up anything until they are ready.
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