Dietitians Fed Up With Gluten-Free Claims

Thanks to books like David Perlmutter's Grain Brain and William Davis' Wheat Belly, the gluten-free food market is a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Some so-called experts are painting gluten as a bad boy of the food world that supposedly causes obesity, Alzheimers, heart disease. It may sound like a staggering claim, but the public is eating it up. Gluten-free books are flying off the shelves. Gluten-free trade expos are bring in mobs of people.

Registered Dietitians find the anti-gluten media coverage hard to swallow. In this web-only feature interview, Dr. Brian Goldman talks to Kate Comeau, a Montreal-based registered dietitian who works for Dietitians of Canada. She's frustrated by clients with an appetite for all things gluten-free when in reality less than ten-percent of the population actually benefits from removing gluten from their diet.

Do you share Kate Comeau's anti-gluten concerns? Or disagree with her? Comment below and keep the conversation going.

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