Gluten Free Diets?

If you have celiac disease.

What is celiac disease?

Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in everyday products such as medicines, vitamins, and lip balms.

If you do not have celiac disease should you go on a gluten free diet. The down side to a gluten free diet :

• Some people diagnosing themselves with gluten intolerance really have it — but, by going on an unsupervised gluten-free diet, are masking the signs that would allow a doctor to get an exact diagnosis and look for related problems, such as fragile bones, says Peter Green, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University in New York.

• Gluten avoiders may end up short on vitamins.

• Gluten-free specialty foods are expensive.

• A poorly planned gluten-free diet also can be fattening. Manufacturers aiming for a yummy wheat-free bagel or bread often rely on fat to replace gluten


What are the benefits to a gluten free diet?

You do not eat processed foods, and eat more healthier foods. As with any diet consult your doctor.

The question on the table is, is a gluten free diet another fad diet. If you feel that the low carb diet was a fad, then yes Gluten Free diets are a fad if you do not have celiac disease. If not planned correctly gluten free diets like any other diet can do more harm than good. If you have celiac disease then you have to avoid gluten. Then you need a gluten free diet.

If you do not have celiac disease, stop jumping from diet to diet. Eat right, eat healthy, there is no magic formula that is going to make you drop 100 pounds over night.

If you want to eat correctly then read the article on the 3 hour Diet No special secret formula, no surgery, no magic diet pill, just eating the way your metabolism will agree.