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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

—R. L. STEVENSON

A gluten-free diet gives with one hand and takes away with the other. For individuals with celiac disease, it truly is a lifesaver yet requires constant vigilance and restrictions. Others find it gives them relief from symptoms like gas and bloating while taking many essential nutrients from their diets. The “giving hand” can also contain heavy metals, toxins, and excess fat and sugar. The “taking hand” dips into pocketbooks for more costly foods. The scale can get very unbalanced if individuals are not aware of the health risks in a gluten-free diet that are often hidden behind the hype surrounding it.

Studies on the real long-term effects of a gluten-free diet on the body and the brain are being published with increasing regularity since the awareness of celiac disease and popularity of the diet in the general public began about a decade ago. While many of the studies are on celiac disease patients who must follow a strict gluten-free diet, research has exposed some troubling issues that affect everyone following the diet.

Mostly we are doing it because we realized how good we can feel and believe it is healthy for us.

(ARIELLE, 33)

A gluten-free diet is many things to many people, but for most it is far from healthy.