Gluten free diet claims to boost your energy reduces retention of water and help in losing your weight more easily than other treatments. But experts have warned that by cutting out gluten, is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, due to no therapeutic reason may cause the problems headache, fatigue, lack of nutrients and weight gain.
Gluten is found in wide range of food products from gravy and beer to pasta and bread. People with problem of coeliac disease give it up due to medical therapeutic requirement. It is serious autoimmune disease that responds to gluten and attacks the lining of the small intestine. Symptoms of disease may include diarrhea, bloating, constipation, joint pain, and depression. In severe cases it can lead to bowel caner, miscarriage and infertility.
By taking a biopsy of the intestine or blood test coeliac disease is diagnosed. People who suffer from this disease should avoid gluten. People are cutting out gluten because availability of self-testing kits from pharmacies and celebrity fads. Many people think by cutting out gluten they can cut calories, excused by faux-medical reasoning.
Many people get excited by the misinterpreted the benefits experienced by those following a gluten-free diet for medical reasons. Gluten intolerance can be differentiated by coeliac disease easily with the tests for coeliac disease means someone would need to avoid every crumb of gluten in their diet to avoid feeling ill, explains Tanya Thomas, a dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic association.
In long term toggling to gluten free diet that involves substituting gluten products with those using flours made from cornmeal, rice and buckwheat can lead to weight gain. It is not abnormal to put on two to three pounds of weight. It is completely a myth that people assume that by cutting out gluten they are going to lose weight explains Tanya Thomas.
Moreover many gluten free products contain extra sugar, salt and fats that make them more edible. By leaving many food groups you will miss out key nutrients. Elimination of food groups can lead to dropping level of energy and hypoglycemic headaches caused by a lack of carbohydrate.