Diet Strategies: Gluten and Weight Loss  

If your belly won't budge, you may have a gluten intolerance. New Zealand researchers recently found that when men who were unable to lose weight stopped eating gluten--a protein found in wheat, rye, oats, and barley--they immediately began dropping pounds. Why? In some people, gluten appears to cause chronically high levels of insulin, a hormone that signals your body to store fat, report the scientists. Case in point: Within 3 months of adopting a gluten-free diet, the study participants had also reduced their insulin levels by 50 percent. Unfortunately, medical tests to determine gluten intolerance are often inconclusive. So the easiest way to find out if you're afflicted is to eliminate this grain protein from your diet for 4 to 6 weeks and monitor your weight and general health for both positive and negative changes. For more information and a list of foods that contain gluten, click here. 

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