Hi everyone this is Monica Reinagle the nutrition diva

I first talked about gluten-free diets way back in 2012 and this trend is still going strong, so I thought I'd revisit this topic to see what's new.

I recently got an email from Maria, who's studying journalism at City University London.

Her assignment is to write an article on the gluten-free diet trend and she asked me to answer

a series of questions on the topic. Now Maria's questions were astute. She'd obviously

done some research before contacting me. Still if I'm going to devote a couple of hours to working on someone else's homework,

I figure you should at least benefit as well so here are my

answers to Maria's questions on gluten-free diets.

Question one some experts suggest that people don't have to have full-blown celiac disease to have serious problems and complications from eating gluten.

Is this really the case?

As the gluten-free diet fad has taken hold, some proponents have suggested that gluten is harmful for everyone.

But many in the medical establishment insist that gluten is only a problem for people with celiac disease.

However, patients and doctors alike have noticed that sometimes people who do not have

celiac disease feel a lot better when they eliminate gluten from their diet.

And these folks are said to suffer from non-Celiac gluten sensitivity.

If avoiding gluten helps people feel better, that's great.

But recent research suggests that while the improvements some people feel

when they eliminate wheat may be quite real,

gluten may not be the culprit after all.

And I talked about this in more detail in my episode,

is non-Ciliac gluten sensitivity for real.

Question number two, how common are celiac disease and or gluten sensitivity?

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