Gluten-free diet - the absolute leader in America.
If you ask Google about which of the diets is the most popular in each of the regions of the United States, the answer will be astounding: a gluten-free diet is becoming increasingly common throughout America.
This diet involves the complete exclusion of food containing gluten (gluten protein), which unites a group of storage proteins found in the seeds of cereals, especially wheat, rye and barley. For example, the gluten content in wheat reaches 80%.
The main goal of a therapeutic gluten-free diet is to eliminate allergy symptoms in people with gluten intolerance or gluten allergies. However, many people choose this diet simply because avoiding gluten-containing foods (mainly flour and sweets) is also a good way to lose weight.
Judging by the map of the United States, presented by the portal Vox, a gluten-free diet has no alternative dominates throughout the country. The states in which it is the most popular by the number of queries in the search engine are marked in purple. In second place is vegetarianism.
For comparison, the authors offer Google search data for previous years, including 2006. As it turned out, at that time the absolute leadership belonged to user requests on the topic of organic food (highlighted in pink). As you know, this is food made without the use - or with less use - of synthetic pesticides, synthetic mineral fertilizers, growth regulators, artificial additives, and also without the use of genetically modified foods (GMOs).
There is, of course, a positive reason for the increasing number of people following a gluten-free diet today, as it is the only medically accepted treatment for celiac disease (about 1% of Americans suffer from the disease) or related symptoms. Celiac disease is a serious disease that occurs when digestive disorders are caused by damage to the villi of the small intestine by certain foods.
However, many are turning to a gluten-free diet in the hope of losing weight. At the same time there is no evidence that such a diet will help to solve the problem.
In 2006 year in one study experts watched the 371 man, each of whom was on a gluten-free diet. Of these, 82 percent gained weight two years later. Another studyin which 149 children of patients with celiac disease participated, showed that in at least a year of a gluten-free diet, the percentage of overweight children has almost doubled.
Of course, weight gain is often associated with the fact that many people mistakenly think that replacing regular pasta or bread with their gluten-free analog will make food healthier and can be taken in large quantities. However, sometimes these substitutes are even more harmful than the original.
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