Following Gluten Free Diet Without Having Celiac Disease

[irish daveyboy]

Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham and Rachel Weisz are among the celebs who reportedly stick to a gluten-free diet.

But though proponents of the trendy regime say it can boost energy and make it easier to lose weight, some health experts claim it causes a variety of health problems.

People who follow the diet when they don

[Skylark]

This is the same popular press that embraced the grapefruit diet, the Atkins diet, the low-fat diet, and all the other fads. Not exactly known for their accuracy.

[tarnalberry]

From the article: "Also, many products that are gluten-free pack in the sugar, fat and salt, according to the Daily Mail.

When wheat flour is fortified with vitamins and iron, it boosts the nutrient content of the diet. When it

[irish daveyboy]

This is the same popular press that embraced the grapefruit diet, the Atkins diet, the low-fat diet, and all the other fads. Not exactly known for their accuracy.

From the article: "Also, many products that are gluten-free pack in the sugar, fat and salt, according to the Daily Mail.

When wheat flour is fortified with vitamins and iron, it boosts the nutrient content of the diet. When it

[Jestgar]

Thanks for posting this. I also watched the Today Show gluten piece and found myself annoyed at the suggestion that eating gluten-free was potentially unhealthy because wheat products are fortified. Our whole society is messed up if we only look at the manufactured products, and think of them as food.

[Skylark]

Yes, I see your point about gluten-free being a fad weight loss diet. The thing that is tragic is that articles like this discourage people from trying gluten-free. I suspect that about 30% of the US population would feel better off gluten, celiac or not.

[Takala]

I thought this sounded familiar. There was a whole slew of these back in May, when the article was first done.

In the United States, the gluten free diet or a low carb diet is considered radical by the general public, thanks to the completely idiotic "Food Pyramid" eating guide that the US Dept of Agriculture came up with to replace the Basic Four eating guidelines. The wretched Food Pyramid treats you like a cow for fattening and insists that the average person eat an immense number of servings of grains per day. Something like 10 to 12 in its early form, I think they may have cut back a little now after making a third of the nation obese. It is a near vegetarian diet but it's based mostly on grains instead of vegetables. It's disgusting, a product of the corn/soybean and agricultural subsidy lobby. Ever since they started promoting that piece of trash around the time that vegetarianism became trendy as a way to "save the world" during the "Green Revolution" (thanks, Monsanto ) that thing has been ruining the American diet. This is when they also started demonizing fat and replaced it with starches and low or no fat became a fad.

Open Original Shared Link dated from 2008

Now they have you clicking thru more links to find a chart which says eat 5 to 6 ounces of grains a day depending on age (males 7 to 8 ounces) and half should be whole grains, depending on activity. They are defining an ounce as a slice of bread, a cup of cereal, 1/2 cup of cooked rice, pasta. I only had to click thru about 5 links to get to that.

Go ahead and try to figure out what other amounts of things you should eat, if you have time to waste.