Gluten-free diet - facts and myths.

The aim of this bachelor thesis was to gain a comprehensive view of the gluten-free diet and to confirm or refute the claim that the gluten-free diet became a fashion trend in nutrition. The theoretical part explains the relationship between gluten-free diet and diseases caused by intolerance of gluten. Greater attention is paid to the most serious of these, celiac disease, whose only treatment is gluten-free diet Research of commonly available sources for the general public has produced a list and description of the most common myths about a gluten-free diet that has been confronted with facts emerging from a medical perspective. Anonymous questionnaire survey was carried out on a sample of customers who bought gluten- free food in the Sklizeno shop, in the Czech National Bank's canteen, on a random sample of people who solve healthy lifestyle and clients of private nutrition counseling with experience with gluten-free diet. The questionnaire looked at awareness of the gluten-free diet, the knowledge about it, the experience, the reasons for the decision-making process. Especially for a group of respondents who maintained a diet without a diagnosed disease whose therapy would be GFD. Gluten-free diet ever held in most of the respondents - 72%. Out of this total, 50% had no medically diagnosed..