“Do gluten free diets take off pounds?” Not automatically, it depends on the choices that the dieter makes. Celiac friendly food does not cause weight gain or loss simply because it is gluten free. Both gluten free and wheat based diets can be equally effective. That is a very brief summary of an article posted recently at eating.health.com. This article is great! Be sure to read the whole thing.

A gluten free blogger wrote about “The Top Five Reasons I Look Great on a Gluten Free Diet“. I’m guessing that the words “great” and “slim” mean roughly the same thing to her. Her ideas are simple and practical. For example: she notes that almost all junk food is gluten toxic and celiacs have at least two reasons for avoiding it.

Many of our food issues are related to what The Savvy Celiac (a blog) has called “gluten entitlement“. We sometimes kid ourselves into believing that gluten free food is good for us IN ANY QUANTITY. Click on either of the links in this paragraph to learn more about this harmful myth.