Gluten-free diets are all the rage these days, with prepackaged products shouting their lack of this gluey protein that holds together grains like wheat, rye, and barely. However, some experts believe that eliminating gluten from your diet isn’t necessarily a healthy, or necessary, step to take. Dr. Geng Zong, Ph.D., a research fellow at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health states that if you cut these grains from your diet, you may be opening the door to an increased risk of chronic illness.

Key Takeaways:

• Avoiding gluten when you do not have celiac is not always the right thing to do and does not always mean that is healthier to do so.
• Avoiding gluten could mean that you are losing nutrients that is provided by the whole grains found in gluten that are said to fight off things such as diabetes.
• If there is no medical reason to cut out gluten then you shouldn’t , instead cut out foods such as salty and overly sweet snacks.

“healthy American’s looking to shed a few pounds should not necessarily follow a gluten-free diet.”

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