HELLO dear friends and steemit community, let's talk about a very important issue like GLUTEN, what are gluten-free foods, does gluten-free diet work?
Gluten is an amorphous protein found in the seeds of many cereals (wheat, barley, rye, spelled, kamut, triticale and cross-contamination in oats). It represents 80% of the proteins in wheat and is composed of gliadin and glutenin.
The gluten is responsible for the elasticity of the flour dough, and confers the elastic and spongy consistency of the loaves and baked doughs. It is also one of the thickeners, binders and homogenizers most used in the food industry and are particularly the latter three, which make the gluten-free diet is so complicated, because it makes foods that naturally do not have gluten, are prohibited.
PERMITTED FOOD, BECAUSE NATURALLY DO NOT CONTAIN GLUTEN:
• Milk and its derivatives: cheeses, spreads without flavors, ricotta, cream, natural yogurts, curd.
• All kinds of meats and fresh and frozen viscera.
• Fresh and frozen fish without batter, fresh seafood and fish and shellfish preserved in natural or in oil.
• Eggs.
• Vegetables, vegetables and tubers
Fruits.
• Rice, corn and tubers.
• Legumes (grains)
• Sugar and honey.
• Oils and butters.
• Coffee beans or ground, infusions and soft drinks.
• Wines and sparkling beverages.
• Raw dried fruits.
• Salt, vinegar of wine, spices in branch, in grain and all the natural ones
Now we will focus on knowing foods that usually contain gluten
• Bread, wheat flour, barley, rye.
• Cakes and cakes.
• Biscuits, biscuits and pastry products.
• Pasta: noodles, macaroni, noodles ...
• Dried figs.
• Distilled or fermented beverages from cereals: beer, barley water.
• Manufactured products in which it enters its composition find any of the aforementioned flours and in any of its forms: starches, starches, semolina, proteins.
Have you noticed the amount of gluten-free products in supermarkets lately?
Gluten-free pasta, gluten-free cookies, gluten-free biscuits. Two decades ago there was none of this, and now you find in almost any large city several restaurants specializing in gluten-free foods.
According to the American NPD group of market trends (1), one in four people believe that eating a gluten-free diet is good for most people and not just for celiac disease.
Gluten, the media star of recent years
If you also think that following a gluten-free diet will help you lose weight, you are not alone. According to a survey made in 2013, 27% of Americans believe that eliminating gluten from their diet will help them lose those extra pounds of fat.
And the fact that celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Victoria Beckham or Gwyneth Paltrow publicly say that their lifestyle without eating gluten has helped them lose weight is "the most convincing" that can be for many.
The only problem is that ... there is absolutely no evidence to confirm this belief.
Some statistics on the consumption of gluten-free products
Gluten-free diets are becoming more popular. According to a recent study (6), in the United States the number of people following a gluten-free diet tripled between 2009 and 2014, but the number of people diagnosed with celiac disease remained more or less the same.
In Europe the estimates are similar, and in other parts of the world the same thing happens.
According to the Mintel Agency (7), leading market research company, in Australia 18% of people buy gluten-free products. And what is more interesting is that 65% of people who consume gluten-free foods do so because they think they are healthier, and 27% do so because they think that it will help them lose weight.
We know that the fitness and weight loss industry is very lucrative. And this is because many people want to lose weight and be in shape, either for aesthetic or health reasons.
But really the safest way is to change eating habits and lifestyle, and not rely on the motivation and willpower to lose weight with crash diets.
We know that the fitness and weight loss industry is very lucrative. And this is because many people want to lose weight and be in shape, either for aesthetic or health reasons.
But really the safest way is to change eating habits and lifestyle, and not rely on the motivation and willpower to lose weight with crash diets.
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