• Question: Is there a long term effect of eating a gluten free diet on someone?

    Asked by bump44ace to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by Obese ponies.
    • Photo: Marcello Valente

      Marcello Valente answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      If the diet is organize by a medic there won’t any bad long term effect on a person aside from being healthy

    • Photo: Min Yap

      Min Yap answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      If the person has coeliac disease, it would definitely benefit them as gluten irritates their small intestine, causing a lot of discomfort and potential health issues for people with this condition. For people who don’t have coeliac disease, a gluten-free diet doesn’t seem to improve the risk for heart disease.

    • Photo: Aoife McHugh

      Aoife McHugh answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      For a person who is coeliac or sensitive to gluten the long term effect is continued health and less illness due to their coeliac disease. For a person who is not coeliac, I don’t think there would be much effect, as long as they are making up for the nutrients lost due to removing a major group of foods from their diet. We all need a varied diet for optimum health, if a person starts excluding a major group of foods from their diet they need to talk to their doctor or a dietitian to advise them so the don’t become deficient in some nutrients.

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