Eating gluten-free diet means strictly abstaining from foods containing wheat bran, such as pasta, pizza, beer, oats, toast, sandwiches, and even delicate foods such as sauces, cakes, bread, biscuits and cakes, and buying foods marked gluten-free instead of potatoes, corn, vegetables, meat, beans, nuts, preserved eggs, seafood and rice.
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Gluten-free food for patients with gluten allergy has been very hot in recent years, and many people equate it with healthy food. However, a recent study in the United States shows that long-term consumption of gluten-free food will greatly increase the content of arsenic and mercury in the body.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago analyzed urine samples of 73 people aged 6 to 80 who had eaten gluten-free food for five years, and found that the more gluten-free food they ate, the higher the arsenic concentration in their urine. The arsenic content in urine of people who only eat gluten-free food is almost twice that of ordinary people, while the mercury content is about 70% higher than that of ordinary people.
Researchers published an article in the bimonthly issue of American Epidemiology, saying that gluten is a group of protein in grains, and people who are allergic to gluten often can't eat ordinary flour products, and usually use rice products instead, which may lead to the change of arsenic content in human body, because crops will absorb arsenic during their growth, and rice is more likely to accumulate arsenic, and its content can be 10 times higher than other foods.
They believe that this study shows that gluten-free foods may have side effects, and further research is needed to find them. If there is no medical necessity, it is not necessary for ordinary people to deliberately pursue gluten-free food.
People's Network-Gluten-free food is not equal to healthy food