Gluten-Free Diets Don't Lower Heart Disease Risk according to : livescience

Gluten-free diets are popular these days, but a new study finds that avoiding gluten won't lower your risk of heart disease. In fact, the researchers say that gluten-free diets could pose health concerns because people who go gluten free tend to lower their intake of whole grains — an ingredient that is linked with a lower risk of heart disease. "These findings do not support the promotion of a gluten-restricted diet with a goal of reducing coronary heart disease risk," the researchers wrote in their paper. The researchers also found that gluten intake actually initially appeared to be linked with a lower risk of heart attack. But no long term studies have examined whether gluten affects the risk of chronic conditions such as coronary heart disease, in people without celiac disease, the researchers said.




The researchers concluded that gluten-free diets should not be promoted for coronary heart disease prevention. Patients were followed until the development of coronary heart disease, death, or the end of follow-up in 2012. Consuming gluten was not significantly associated with risk of coronary heart disease long-term, according to results from two large prospective cohorts. Chan and colleagues found that 2,431 women and 4,098 men developed coronary heart disease over the 26 year follow-up period. Action Points Consuming gluten was not significantly associated with risk of coronary heart disease long-term.

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But the reason seems to be more practical than biological, since school-age cutoffs make summer babies in the U.K. younger than their classmates. "May, June and July … seemed to be a better time to give birth," Boland says, when it comes to babies' overall disease risk. People with March and April birthdays, meanwhile, are at highest risk for heart trouble, Boland's research found. Reproductive problemsReproductive problems (Getty Images) Boland often hears women discussing their desire for a spring or summer baby. "It's not horoscopes or the alignment of planets," says John Perry, a senior investigator scientist at the University of Cambridge.


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