What exactly is a gluten-free diet? With new health trends popping up everyday, the phrase “gluten-free” is quickly becoming a hot topic. A gluten-free diet is one that cuts out all foods that someone with Celiac Disease cannot eat. While a large majority of people think that this just means cutting out all flour, it is much more extensive than this. Despite the new craze around the diet, people with Celiac Disease have been eating this diet since the disease was first discovered. This diet is not an easy one to adhere to, unfortunately. People who suffer from Celiac Disease must adhere to strict diets that prevent them from eating many foods. Due to the difficult nature of these diets, more gluten free food options should be provided. …show more content…
It has become a new trend to eat a gluten free diet even when you don’t have Celiac disease. This new spike in interest has caused the marketers to slowly raise their prices in hopes of making a larger profit. Despite an increase in interest in gluten free diets, the food remains relatively unhealthy and outrageously expensive. People with Celiac Disease often suffer from mild to severe vitamin deficiency. Because there are so many staple foods that these people cannot eat, they often end up not getting enough of several different vitamins in their diets. People eating a gluten free diet are most often deficient in Iron, calcium, magnesium, Vitamin D, zinc, folate, niacin, B12 and riboflavin. Most, if not all of these vitamins are necessary for the body to work properly. In order to make sure they are getting enough necessary vitamins, people with Celiac Disease must be very specific with what they eat. Not only does this cost more money, but many gluten free snacks offer little to no real nutritional value. The market for nutritious gluten free foods is severely lacking. With this gap in the market, more and more people following a gluten-free diet are depriving their bodies of all the vitamins it