It's the beginning of a new year and writers, websites, and magazines are compiling their top trends lists, as predictions for the upcoming year. After all, it's 2010 now, and seems the best time to reflect on all of last year's most notable food fads in order to foresee what the upcoming year will bring us in food pop culture and consumerism.
Gluten-free eating has become more and more popular and mainstream over the last few years, as more people are being diagnosed with Celiac disease and gluten intolerance/allergies (either by medical professionals or via simple elimination diets). So it's not surprising that among the many predictions for 2010's favorite edibles, The Daily Beast has named gluten-free food as number three on their Ten Food Trends For 2010 list. As the website says, "Gluten-free products are not just for those unfortunate folks dealing with hypersensitive allergies. 'So many people have wheat allergies, and even if they don’t, they just feel better if they don’t eat wheat,' The Fancy Food Show’s Ron Tanner says."
This is a definite success for the gluten-free community, as our lifestyle diets and ways of eating will be taken more and more seriously, in hopes that new standards for gluten-free certification and quality control and labeling will become regulated. Not to mention, there's a greater chance that more information will be getting distributed to the public about the prevalence of gluten allergies. It's also safe to assume gluten-free food products, restaurants, websites, and blogs will take off this year -- even more so than before.
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Girls are going
gluten free to try
to loose weight & achieve
a waif like appearance.
It's sad.
sometimes when a child,
especially young girls come to the
dinner table
to announce that they
are now "gluten free,
sugar free, fat free, meat free, and dairy free?"
It is cry for help ! & a Fad diet for masking imminent eating disorders.
Parents need real medical test done on their
children, nutritional and accredited clinical advice, not fads.
Anna, eating disorders are serious and tragic and life-threatening. The reasons most people go gluten-free is not for weight loss, but because they are experiencing severe health problems. When their symptoms are alleviated via a gluten-free lifestyle, they stick to it because they feel well. To say an eating disorder is caused by a certain diet is a fallacy because, indeed, any diet could be used as a guise for an eating disorder. It would be better to work toward something positive, like helping for those with eating disorders, rather than taking aim at one specific diet.
Todd, I would suggest you take a look at the Gluten-Free Recipe Blogs I have listed to the right of the page for ideas as to how filling and satisfying gluten-free diets can be. Many men and women and children are gluten-free and experience thriving health. Gluten-free diets are not unique to girls.
There is trend towards
orthoreixa in the food industry
for young women and it can be dangerous.
Most Females have no allergies
to gluten, but they will delete from their
diets along sugar, fat or diary to stay skinny.
The goal is staying skinny.
Gluten free sites need to state that it's not
a tenet of the VEGAN diet or most healthy
diets to be gluten free.
1 percent of the USA population is gluten intolerant .
If You have no allergy to gluten in foods?
then It's not mandatory for most to be shun gluten!
It's an elective of a diet, like being salt free,
carrot free, strawberry free or sugar free or insert
any other ingredient that you don't like or that you fear
would make you fat.
Teens Claiming Food Allergies_
without positive medical tests that is the New Eating Disorder!
I work with young girls & I agree with Anna!
there is dangerous movement with
young school girls
They are skipping meals in a desire to stay thin
& self diagnosing or misdiagnosing illnesses that they
do not have. Vegan & Vegetarianism is coined
to hide Eating Disorders in an acceptable way.
Teens Claiming Food Allergies_
without positive medical tests that is the New Eating Disorder
These Girls? They have never
been diagnosed as having a gluten allergy
or celiac disease saying they are gluten
intolerant. They have read the book
by authors authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
& they are going to sites such as How the Rich Stay Thin.
& they think it will help them stay thin.
it's a cover to use the phrase I have a gluten allergy.
They are saying the gluten free & casein free diets
cures autism too. There needs
to be facts & more studies presented first_
many are embracing this diet
before making all of those bogus claims
without medical tests!
Gluten-Free Diets: Latest Fad?
As we say farewell to the low-carb frenzy, The Australian reports on another growing fad: Gluten-Free Diets.
Nutritionist Joanne Beer said gluten-free had replaced low-carb as the latest diet craze.
"I think it's a trendy fad and people are jumping on the bandwagon," she said.
"I've had so many people coming in lately and saying, 'oh, I'm gluten-intolerant', and in 99 per cent of cases they are not."
For sufferers of Celiac disease, following a gluten-free diet is a necessity. However it appears that many people are now self-diagnosing, and buying up gluten-free products.
A spokeswoman for Woolworths supermarkets said gluten-free foods represented the fastest-growing category within the health food market.
Celiac disease can be diagnosed with a blood test. Other than that, there is no special reason to follow a gluten-free diet.
it's reaching the college-age crowd too!
Why Would Anyone Go on a Gluten-Free Diet if He Didn’t Have To?
For the last few years, the number of Americans going on gluten-free diets has increased. It make sense: Doctors are diagnosing more people with celiac disease or gluten intolerance.
But a strange thing is happening: People who don’t have either condition are cutting gluten out of their diet in an effort to lose weight and cleanse their system. And that could lead to health problems—and even weight gain.Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and oats (usually due to contamination). For people who have a gluten intolerance, eating breads or even drinking a beer can cause abdominal pain, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. In the most extreme cases, in which doctors diagnose celiac disease, consuming gluten can set off an autoimmune response that damages the small intestine and makes it difficult to absorb nutrients. The government estimates that there are more than two mi
I agree some people have been
diagnosed with having celiac disease
but there are others who are abusing the term & diet in a quest to
be thin.
Both sides of the controversy needs
to be told not only the Celiac side but the Eating Disorder, Fad Side.
There's no need to deny that Many are abusing the diet and making
false claims for Weight loss & Autism cures.
read Dr. Ayla's
The gluten-free health fad: the good and the bad .
& Going Gluten-Free: The New Diet Fad
By Marie Suszynski
Medically reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH
Many people without celiac disease are eating gluten-free. Find out how that affects people with celiac disease.
Unfortunately, such myths keep many people from achieving true health and wellness. There are NO negative side effects to a gluten-free diet, and even if you are not Celiac, you can still be gluten intolerant.
Statistics show 1 in 30 people are intolerant to gluten. There is no downside to a gluten-free diet and relying on these eating disorder myths can truly keep a person from real health, versus reliance on a medication for the rest of their lives.
A gluten-free diet is validated not only by research but also via the firsthand experience of the person who reclaims health. Such stereotypes or negative opinions simply cannot detract from those.
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I have been gluten free for 6 years to help with inflammation from auto-immune disorders...trust me gluten free does not mean weight loss. It's just as easy to eat high calorie and high sugar without gluten as it is with...too bad for me! I wish I could eliminate sugar as easily as I did gluten!
Using gluten free to lose weight is ridiculous. Gluten free foods often have MORE calories than their wheat, barley or rye counterparts. MANY people are intolerant to gluten because wheat today is so heavily processed and genetically engineered that our bodies are starting to reject it. It has NOTHING to do with fads or losing weight, and everything to do with our bodies. I went gluten free via advice from my doctor. My chronic migraines and swollen lymph nodes have been eliminated, and these were issues I had dealt with since I was a child. Intolerance affects many people in different ways, and after all, it never hurts to try. I had exhausted every explanation for my debilitating migraines and my constantly swollen neck, underarms, and other lymph nodes. Just being gluten free for three weeks took the internal swelling of my body down a tremendous amount.
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