Gluten-free diet could raise heart attack risk

RAEL’S COMMENT:

“Going gluten-free denies the body the heart benefits of whole grains and healthy people should not be tempted into it by celebrity health gurus, according to the Harvard scientists behind the first long-term study.

About one in 100 people have coeliac disease, an autoimmune condition where eating gluten triggers harmful inflammation of the digestive system.”

The next time a dinner guest upends your carefully planned menu by announcing they have given up gluten, a riposte is at hand.

Scientists are warning that there is no evidence behind the clean-eating fad and that gluten-free diets may be putting millions of Britons at risk of heart attacks.

Going gluten-free denies the body the heart benefits of whole grains and healthy people should not be tempted into it by celebrity health gurus, according to the Harvard scientists behind the first long-term study.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/gluten-free-diet-raises-heart-attack-risk-2pdpb953k