Chances are you’ve heard about gluten in the news lately. Those in the diet industry have been promoting a gluten free diet as a way to improve health and make fat loss easier, but are there any truths to this claim?

Much controversy has surrounded the subject of gluten, with many dieticians and physicians taking the stand that a diet high in carbohydrates and lower in fat is better for weight loss. A recent study in the January 2013 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry has shown that to not be the case. Gluten has now been definitively shown to promote weight gain, turning a lot of conventional wisdom on its head overnight.