Gluten Free Diet Craze: Booming

Grocery stores are packed with gluten free products–theU.S. Department of Agricultureestimates that gluten free revenues will reach 2- billion dollars this year.

Why the sudden explosion of gluten free products?

The answer may come from the University of Pavia where Italian researchers find that unfounded benefits of going gluten free are rampant.

Baylor-Plano licensed-registered dietitian Megan Moore said for those who are not gluten-intolerant it’s become a fad diet.

Moore is often peppered with questions about the benefits of a gluten free diet.

“Usually they’ve heard about it on the internet, they’ve had a friend who started a gluten free diet and there is a lot of marketing,” Moore said. “But there is really no scientific evidence that eating a gluten free diet is going to help anyone if you don’t have celiac disease.”

People with celiac disease or gluten-sensitivity are allergic to gluten which is found in foods like wheat and barley.

Some hope a gluten free diet will reduce other health issues.

Some think it will help them lose weight–but Moore says it may do just the opposite.

“If they go for the gluten free bakery items,” Moore warned. “Often they add more fat and more calories to try to get the right texture and the right flavor.”

“It’s written in Chinese, Japanese and Tai. “Rebecca Sills said while pointing to her newly printed medical-alert card.

Yep, she’s a card carrying gluten-intolerant and has already packed carry-on bag full of gluten free foods for an upcoming trip to China.

Rebecca advised that if you want to lose weight gluten free won’t help and tells inquisitive friends that she’d gain weight if she didn’t go to boot camp.

“I think people think it’s a good diet when in fact I’m just not eating a whole lot of different varieties of food which I probably should be eating,” Rebecca said. “Fiber content in gluten free is not good and I don’t know what nutrients I’m missing.”

Rebecca takes gluten free vitamins to replace the iron and zinc that she’s not getting in her gluten free diet.

She asks people why they’re so interested in her gluten free diet.

“If their answer is, oh, I just think it’s healthier or I just think it’s a good idea, I always try to talk them out of it because it’s just not, Rebecca said.”It’s not a diet, that’s for sure.”

 

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