The gluten industry doesn't want to lose you!

And the gluten industry is still trying to “not lose” you as a “loyal consumer” or get you back.

Take a look at this “call” to read an article on a well-known news website: “Gluten-free diet favors arsenic contamination and increases risk of disease” (in https://www.uol.com.br/tilt/ultimas-noticias/redacao/2017/02/15/dieta-sem-gluten-favorece-contaminacao-por-arsenio-e-eleva-risco-de-doencas.htm).

It makes you want to read it, doesn't it? But look at the problems with the title and the article:

✅ A gluten-free diet only favors contamination by arsenic, a toxic metal, if those who remove gluten put a lot of rice in its place, in various forms (a mistake that is still common, unfortunately, but is becoming less frequent as people become better informed). The ideal, therefore, is to have a dietary re-education that reduces the amount of flour and carbohydrates (sugars) in the diet, otherwise the harm will not only be from the rice, but above all from the excess sugar, which is perfectly possible, especially with competent functional nutritional support that values the issue.

The article assumes that those who eliminate gluten consume more rice (and derivatives) and “necessarily” increase arsenic in the body, thus increasing the risk of disease. In other words, there are several biased speculations that lead the reader to “conclude”, without question, that they shouldn't eliminate gluten to avoid getting sick; a joke in very bad taste! The text tries to present the “gluten-free diet” as a mere fad, which is not true. Gluten is harmful to most people and reports like this seem to be efforts by the gluten industry to try to “rehabilitate” their harmful product, don't you agree? Check out the damage and be convinced once and for all by the evidence at https://icaro.med.br/GLUTEN/.

Studies have already been carried out on this supposed “greater intoxication with arsenic” and other heavy metals by those who consume more rice and rice products, and no amount was found to be absolutely dangerous to health, except in cases of frank excesses committed chronically.

When the article talks about “Myths and truths about gluten”, it makes several curious mistakes. One of them is that it states that those who eliminate gluten from their diet generally cut down on carbohydrates, but in another section, it states that those who do so consume more rice and rice products. It's contradictory to say the two things “together”, since most rice is made up of carbohydrates!

✅ Most people have non-celiac gluten sensitivity (by several different mechanisms, which I explain here: https://icaro.med.br/GLUTEN/) and many have undiagnosed celiac disease, but still insist on saying that “gluten is fine for most people”... Could this be undue underdiagnosis or underestimation of symptoms or disorders?

Got it? Be careful what you read out there... Especially when the “reading” is only in the titles and “conclusions”!