Diabetes is one of the most common disease which is seen in numerous people around the world. There is a common problem of creation of insulin by the body of the person who is suffering from diabetes. As insulin is produced in quite a limited quantity it will have a negative impact on the absorption of sugar in the body cells. This occurs as insulin is the prime reason due to which body cells are absorbing glucose from the blood.
As insulin’s are not generated in required quantity, sugar levels will rise substantially inside the body. This higher level of sugar in the blood of a human will lead to a disease which is termed as Diabetes type 2. It is a long-term disease and thereby stays for a long term in an individual. Various precautionary measures can be taken to be safe from diabetes.
Reasons for adopting gluten-free diet
We all are aware that recently the foods which are gluten-free have increased significantly in the market. This is mainly because many of the people are diagnosed with coeliac disease and even the sensitivity of the gluten. These are mainly caused due to the reaction of the person’s immune system to gluten. With this, even many of the celebrities are also now slowly supporting the gluten-free diets.
Mainly Gluten is a kind of protein which is mainly found in some of the diets which we eat normally. It is mainly found in the wheat, rye, and barley. Basically, coeliac disease is one of the autoimmune disorder which is caused by the immune system of the person. In this case, diseased body of the person reacts with the gluten as if it thinks that it is a kind of threat to the body.
This would result in many of the symptoms coming up as the body is fighting against the gluten and is trying to eliminate the same. Normally this kind of condition of the individual is quite common and is found almost in 1 for every 100 people. Many times it goes un-diagnosed as the symptoms which are seen are not that acute.
Even there are the cases in which person is having the disease but the body is not showing up with the symptoms. In those cases, there are chances that symptoms are too minor to be detected by the individual which can result in the disease going by undiagnosed. One needs to pay proper attention to the kind of symptoms which they are facing in order to identify what actually they are facing and thereby identifying the way in which they can fight against them.
As some people are not having an immune response to this people has developed a common habit of consuming gluten-free diets. This has resulted in such a high amount of spread of the diets which are free from the gluten. There hasn’t been a study since recently about what gluten-free diet can actually cause. Symptoms which are commonly seen who are suffering from the coeliac disease include diarrhoea, abdominal pain and bloating.
Without any kind of evidence, people are turning to the gluten-free diets in order to avoid the conditions of the coeliac disease. They are considering this as a healthy alternative to the normal diet as it is causing them to stay fit with the autoimmune response. This has resulted in the supermarkets getting filled up with the diets which are gluten-free as it is getting widely accepted by people.
Effect of Gluten-free diet
Higher acceptance of gluten-free diet has resulted in many people moving towards gluten-free diet. The people who are suffering from the coeliac disease can move to the gluten-free diet with minimum side effects, but to other individuals, it is having severe side effects according to the recent research. Recent research conducted by the Harvard group has shown that such persons accepting gluten-free diet increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
This data was obtained by conducting the research over about 2,00,000 people. The analysis which was conducted has shown that those people who were having the highest intake of the gluten were having 80% lesser chances of developing type 2 diabetes. It is as compared to those who were having lowest levels of the gluten intake.
Type 2 diabetes is getting quite a common disease now. Many people from around the world are found to be suffering from the same. According to one of the survey it was found that about 400 m people worldwide are suffering from this severe condition. This number is likely going to increase in the near future and for many upcoming years.
If we look on for the budget which is allotted for fighting diabetes it is around 10 percent of the entire NHS budget. The cost which is incurred for treating diabetes is alone costing to around £ 1 billion annually. This is a substantially high amount which is spent on a single disease for its control.
Even after spending such high amount there is no such cure for the disease and also the remission of the disease is quite rare. This means that once an individual is identified as having type 2 diabetes it is quite impossible for reversing the condition to become a healthy individual.
Data which was obtained for this was gathered retrospectively. This further allows for gathering and analyzing a large amount of practical data which relies on the food-frequency questions. It was just the first study which has identified the relationship of the gluten intake with the occurrence of the type 2 diabetes.
This study is, therefore, an important one which can give an answer to the people who are relying just on the gluten-free diet. The people who are considering the gluten-free diet as a healthy alternative is then required to consider again over the choice of their food alternative.
Thus we can say that with the increase in the occurrence of coeliac disease people have moved on to a gluten-free diet. They have taken this step while considering it as a healthy alternative. The recent study is helping these individuals to understand the effect of gluten-free diet on the body. It shows that by increasing the usage of the gluten-free diet for our food habits is resulting in increased risk for the type 2 diabetes.