Gluten-Free Diet: Imprudent Dietary Advice for the General Population? http://www.andjrnl.org/article/S2212-2672(12)00743-5/fulltext The gluten-free diet is getting more popular day by day. Always more people decide to avoid gluten, some of them for unjustified reasons opting out the beneficial effects of a whole grain diet. The gluten is a protein found in barely wheat and rye. It recently turned out that the consumption of grain products such as bread, pasta, cereal, muesli, and many others containing gluten, may cause bed effects on human body system. So many people is getting aware about their own gluten sensitivity or intolerance. In fact for the 0.1% of the population eating gluten is unhealthy. Their body identify this protein as a threatening that inhibits the absorption of the nutritional elements of the food they eat. Who is affected from this disease is called celiac and without a specific diet feels tired having gastrointestinal problems and until the death after a long period. For others, gluten isn't so dangerous but it compromise their well being. There is also a part of the population that wrongly chooses gluten avoidance aiming uncorrelated goals, as they are not sensitive or intolerant. Scientific studies demonstrate that gluten is good for health. Consumption of whole-grain foods helps the bioflora of the gut of our body; it decreases the possibility of cancer or viral infection and it has positive effects on the cardiovascular system controlling the lipids level in our blood. In addition the gluten-free diet isn't a proper solution for who wants to loose weight. Most of fat or over-weight people avoiding foods with gluten put on weight instead. For concluding the experts suggest to include a certain amount of whole-grain food in the diet if you haven't any problem with gluten.