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Will going gluten-free cause weight loss?

Is going gluten-free the ticket to weight loss? A nutrition expert tackles this trendy idea.
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Although people have been eating wheat for thousands of years, one third of US adults now shun foods containing wheat in an effort to avoid gluten.

“…blaming gluten for weight gain draws a flawed conclusion.”

But what is gluten? And is it worthy of this tarnished reputation?

Thomas Campbell, family physician and medical director of the University of Rochester Medicine Weight Management & Lifestyle Center at Highland Hospital, explains:

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