In recent years, many celebrities have been advised to completely eliminate gluten (or gluten) foods from the diet.. However, a new study has shown that there can be more harm from such a restriction than good.

Gluten means a group of storage proteins that are contained in the seeds of cereal plants (wheat, rye, barley and others). A gluten-free diet is the only medicine recognized in medicine to treat a disease called celiac disease.. Patients with celiac disease are forced to check every purchased product, so on many packages of food products today you can see the inscription " However, today in Los Angeles (and beyond him and around the world) real hysteria unfolds around gluten. Recently, more and more star and not so nutritionists are advising a gluten-free diet, supposedly to improve health and maintain shape.

In addition to supporters, the trend diet also has opponents, since no evidence of a long-term positive effect on refusing gluten was found. Specialists from the American Heart Association (American Heart Association) decided to shed light on this issue and conducted an appropriate study..

During the study, doctors collected information about the health of more than 200 thousand people, most of whom consumed less than 12 grams of gluten per day.

Indicators over 30 years have shown that participants with the highest amount of gluten in their diets had the least risk of developing type 2 diabetes.. But those who reduced gluten consumption or even excluded it from the diet, most often faced with this disease. The average risk in the latter group increased by 13%.

Researchers can only speculate what is causing this effect.. Probably the fact is that, refusing products containing gluten, people also begin to consume less fiber. And this substance is a known protective factor against the development of type 2 diabetes..

“People without celiac disease can review gluten restriction for the prevention of chronic diseases, especially diabetes,” said Geng Zong, co-author and researcher at the Harvard University Nutrition Department.

Meanwhile, in 2014, the US National Research Center conducted a survey on gluten-free diets.. It turned out that about a third of adult Americans surveyed today are trying to reduce gluten intake, while celiac disease in the US is found in only 1% of the population. That is, most people really believe in giving up gluten..

A study conducted in 2009 in Spain showed that even a month of a gluten-free diet was enough to reduce the number of beneficial bacteria in the intestines.. Another study found that gluten favorably affects the functioning of the human immune system..

Scientists, speaking about the current work, note that the conclusions were based on data provided by the participants themselves. In addition, gluten-free diets became popular only in the last few years, and research began long before that..

However, the available data are enough to recognize the rejection of gluten without direct medical indicators available as a matter of at least a contentious issue, the authors believe.

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