Michael Specter on the Gluten-Free Fad

Published: May 26, 2015, 4:39 p.m.

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This week on Point of Inquiry

, Lindsay Beyerstein is joined by renowned journalist Michael Specter, a staff writer for The New Yorker, to talk about the subject of his award-winning story,\xa0\u201cAgainst the Grain: Should You Go Gluten-Free?\u201d\xa0\n

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The trend of gluten-rejection is growing despite the fact that foregoing gluten has zero health benefits, unless you\u2019re among the 1% of the population with celiac disease. Specter explains how the misinformation about gluten has gotten to this point, and what a health diets should actually look like. \xa0

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\xa0Michael Specter will also be speaking at CFI\u2019s Reason for Change conference\xa0June 11-15 in Buffalo, New York. If you\u2019d like to see Michael Specter and Lindsay Beyerstein in person, make sure you go to\xa0ReasonforChange.org\xa0to register today!

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