What is gluten free diet and why it's important for health?

Answer 1

The reason for not eating gluten is when you have Celiac disease. Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein in wheat, rye, and barley. Gluten is found mainly in foods but may also be found in everyday products such as medicines, vitamins, and lip balms.

If a food is gluten free it means it doesn't contain gluten or any grains containing gluten.

Source: I am a celiac.

Answer 2

A gluten-free diet is a diet that excludes foods containing gluten. Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley, rye and triticale. A gluten-free diet is the only medically accepted treatment for celiac disease.[1] Being gluten intolerant can often mean a person may also be wheat intolerant as well as suffer from the related inflammatory skin condition dermatitis herpetiformis,[2] There are a smaller minority of people who suffer from wheat intolerance alone and are tolerant to gluten. For more information visit the Related Link.

Answer 3

They Need it because if they eat gluten they have a 1/10 chance of cancer not a 1/100. i am GF so i should know.