1. A Brazilian research team that published a report in the January 2013 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry reveals that it is not calories but gluten, the major cause for obesity. Sayer Ji of GreenmedInfo.com who proposed this analysis: said that the weight gain associated with wheat consumption has little to do with caloric content per se; rather, the gluten proteins which disrupt endocrine and exocrine processes within the body, as well as directly modulating nuclear gene expression that to alter mamalian metabolism in the direction of weight gain. 2. Gluten can cause gut inflammation for people with celiac disease, or people with non-celiac glutan sensitive or people who have no sensitivity for gluten. Amylase trypsin inhibitors (ATIs) can provoke an inflammatory immune response in the Gastrointestinal tract by stimulating immune cells. 3. Inflammation in the gut contributes to intestinal permeability which is an essential factor in the deve...