Social media and lifestyle magazines have turned gluten – a protein in wheat, rye, and barley – into a dietary villain. Athletes and celebrities have promoted gluten-free eating as the secret to better health and performance. But our review in The Lancet, published today, challenges that idea. Related: Gluten Intolerance vs Celiac Disease: Experts Reveal The Key Differences By examining …
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Social media and lifestyle magazines have turned gluten – a protein in wheat, rye and barley – into a dietary villain. Athletes and celebrities have promoted gluten-free eating as the secret to better health and performance. But our review in The Lancet published today challenges that idea. By examining decades of research, we found that for most people who think …
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For roughly one in every hundred people, even tiny amounts of gluten can trigger severe symptoms and pose serious health risks. While a domino effect of immunological reactions can be traced back to their genetic roots, multiple contributing factors make it hard to map the precise chain of events that causes celiac disease. Using transgenic mice, an international team led …
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For many of us, gluten is a dietary villain, capable of causing all sorts of gastrointestinal troubles. Research out this week looks to complicate that narrative, however, finding that people are sometimes wrongly blaming gluten for triggering their symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome. Scientists at McMaster University in Canada conducted the study, a small, randomized trial of IBS patients. People …
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