Gluten free? The truth of flour
Gluten is a type of protein that is
included in foods like flour, and this component can cause various problems to
people who have allergies.
Recently, campaign of having gluten-free
foods started from USA and EUROPE.
Gluten-free diets became popular across
many people after famous celebrities joined this campaign.
Famous model Miranda Kerr, said “I never
eat white colored food (flour) because that is poison”.
Kim Kardashian, who is admired by many
women for her perfect body shape, said “Gluten-free diet is the best”. Then, is
gluten really bad for our body?
Gluten is a type of insoluble protein which
presents in wheat, barley, rye and so on.
Its molecule structure contains sugar and
lipids, and it has effect of expanding leaven which could be used to maintain
shape of bread and cookies while thickens and seasons foods.
There are various foods contain gluten,
including bread, pasta, cake, biscuit, assorted snacks, soup, syrup, salad
dressing, sausage, beer and gum.
It could also be used as seasonings in form
of glutamic acid or salt, and can even be used as adhesive or fodder.
Is gluten dangerous?
In fact, gluten-free foods are not healthy
as much as we think.
This is because gluten-free foods contain
less folic acid which is known as effective prevention of stroke for
hypertension patients, and contains less iron as well.
Also, gluten-free foods tend to contain
more sugar and fat.
Additionally, some research results have
proved that continuous gluten-free diet can lead to gaining more weight.
Many celebrities have stated that they are
on gluten-free diet, but their perfect body shape cannot be simply considered
as the result of gluten free diet because these people also do exercise and
other methods to maintain their body shape.
If you have no problem with digestion after
consuming foods that contains grains including flour, you don’t have to have
gluten-free foods.
There is no basis that proves gluten and
flour are bad for our health.
This is common misconceptions based on most
of foods made with flour contains a lot of sugar and high calories, which is
obesity related.
Ultimately, it is not gluten that leads us
to obesity, but our daily life habit of overeating and exercising less leads us
to obesity.
Let’s form a habit of eating moderately and
exercising healthily!
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