Question

Why did gluten-free diets become so popular? Would you recommend a gluten-free diet? Would you recommend white bread, wheat bread, sourdough bread, etc? Support your recommendations with information from both the podcast and our course.

Answer 1

Gluten is the protein present in wheat,barley,rye like grains. This causes the adhesion property, thus helps the food to maintain their shape.

Ceiliac disease is an autoimmune disorder. The people with Celiac disease should not consume the gluten protein. If they consume gluten, it damages the small intestine. The people with Celiac disease get an autoimmune attack on their small intestine, if they consume gluten. This autoimmune attack on their small intestine causes their villi get damaged.

As the villi gets damaged, their nutrient absorption will become very poor. Then they will become very weak.

A gluten-free diet is the one, in which gluten protein is removed or excluded. Thus, the people who are suffering with Celiac disease are adviced to have gluten-free diet, so as to stay fit, as there is no treatment for this disease, since this disease is due to genetic abnormalities.

1 in every 100 are affected by this disease and in the families it run in ancestral fashion. Hence they all need gluten-free diet. so only gluten-free diet has become popular now. So, all those perons who are suffering with Celiac disease are adviced to eat gluten-free diet, in order to stay fit.

whole grain flours contain less gluten, than the refine flour. so white bread contain gluten. it is not gluten-free.

wheat bread is not gluten-free. Sourdough bread is gluten-free bread, which is adviced for Celiac disease patients.