Miley Cyrus Urges Fans to Go Gluten-Free: Smart or Silly?
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2012/04/12 21:00:00
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Miley Cyrus swears she's not anorexic -- she's just gone gluten-free. And she wants you to do it, too. "For everyone calling me anorexic, I have a gluten and lactose allergy," she tweeted. "It's not about weight -- it's about health. Gluten is crap anyway!" Miley Cyrus then told a fan: "Everyone should try no gluten for a week! The change in your skin, physical and mental health is amazing. You won't go back!"
But health experts are firing back at the 19-year-old star, saying that only people with a gluten sensitivity or who have celiac disease should go gluten-free (gluten is a portion of a protein in wheat, found in
bread, pasta and other foods).
"People who go gluten-free may gain weight if they rely mostly on highly processed gluten-free foods, many of which tend to be higher in fat, calories and sugar than their gluten-containing counterparts," Rachel Begun, a registered dietitian and food industry consultant, told TODAY Health.
bread, pasta and other foods).
"People who go gluten-free may gain weight if they rely mostly on highly processed gluten-free foods, many of which tend to be higher in fat, calories and sugar than their gluten-containing counterparts," Rachel Begun, a registered dietitian and food industry consultant, told TODAY Health.
Karen Ansel, also a registered dietitian and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, agreed. "There’s absolutely no evidence that a gluten-free diet promotes weight loss," she told TODAY. "However, there is data that indicates that following a gluten-free diet can result in a diet that's low in key nutrients -- especially iron, zinc and B vitamins such as folate and niacin."
Miley certainly looks thin and toned ... but she's also been doing a lot of Pilates lately. Do you think everyone should go gluten-free? Or is Miley giving bad health advice?
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+9These celebs jumping in the gluten free, paleo-diet band wagon are pissing me off. My wife is celiac, meaning she cannot eat gluten because her body essentially treats it as a poison. These people who do it as a fad make it difficult for people to take my wife seriously when she says she can't have gluten. For anyone else, gluten is fine. Our ancestors ate it. This paleo-diet crap is BS.
That said, why are people over-reacting to her comment? She said people should try no gluten for "a week"... while I wouldn't go so far as to call that "smart" advice, what's so dangerous about it? Nutritionists are responding as though she's told people to cut it out entirely. In light of why she was making the comment (responding to outrageous claims she has anorexia), her remark doesn't seem that bad.
*Edit* Do people even bother to read what's posted in these questions? A lot of people are responding as though she's on some gluten-free campaign and not simply responding to allegations that she's anorexic. People also seem to be entirely ignoring the fact that she only suggested people go gluten-free for one week.
She also stated that she is allergic to gluten and lactose... and the only reason we know any of this is because people felt the need to pretend to be doctors and claim she's anorexic, even though she appears to be perfectly fit.
Perhaps celebrities wouldn't feel the need to make excuses for their diets if the media and regular citizens didn't feel the need to remark obsessively about their bodies.
Wheat is produced and grown to have a higher gluten content now than it used to,and it is really not very good for you anymore. Most of our wheat is genetically modified and not the healthy wheat our ancestors ate.
Besides she's only asking people to TRY it and see how they feel instead of picking on her.
People seem to forget that the only reason she was discussing her diet in the first place is because we were obsessively remarking about her body.
People who have celiac disease, a disorder that makes their bodies react to gluten, can't eat certain kinds of foods
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