4 Investment Ideas That Are Gluten-Free

Maxx Chatsko, The Motley Fool

Filed under: Investing

If you visit your local grocery or health-food store, chances are you'll see a section devoid of gluten products. If you don't know what I'm talking about now, you will soon. The $2.6 billion gluten-free food market in the United States is expected to nearly double by 2015. The growth is being driven by the need to better serve individuals with gluten intolerance and celiac disease, who can't properly digest gluten found in wheat, barley, and rye...

Gluten-Free on the Go: Fun Food Apps

Victoria Foster

Internet, schminternet. Why fire up your Google browser when there’s an app for everything, including how to navigate the gluten-free lifestyle? With a veritable smorgasbord of apps to choose from, which ones are worth the download? Here are some of our favorite smartphone apps, from trivia quizzes to shopping and cooking guides.

Find Me Gluten Free - One of the highest rated gluten-free apps in the Apple App Store, Find Me Gluten Free features just about everything you could want in a gluten-free app...

Dunkin’ Donuts Introducing Gluten-Free Doughnuts This Year

Hugh Merwin

You still have to watch out for the half-eaten ones, though. In a somewhat surprising move, Dunkin' Donuts chief executive Stan Frankenthaler announced plans to roll out a gluten-free cinnamon-sugar doughnut and gluten-free blueberry muffins at stores across the country this year, Bloomberg reports . Frankenthaler confirmed that the no-gluten products will be "packaged separately" to avoid contact with gluten, which is pretty much everywhere else inside Dunkin' Donuts stores, so while those with celiac disease will not...

Dunkin' Donuts to offer gluten-free donuts, muffins

Dunkin' Donuts isn't exactly known as a dieter's paradise, but it'll soon have the gluten-free crowd covered.

For Most People Dunkin Donuts' New Gluten-Free Menu Is A Total Waste Of Money

Robert Ferris

Dunkin Donuts is coming out with a new gluten-free menu , but 94% of its customers probably have no need for it.

Gluten-free products, which exclude any food made from wheat, rye, or barley, have taken off in recent years. Many swear that eliminating grains from their diets has helped them lose weight , think more clearly, and enjoy better overall health....

Viewpoint: Defining Obesity as a Disease May Do More Harm Than Good

Maia Szalavitz

The label is supposed to improve awareness and treatments for the condition, but similar proclamations about alcoholism and other addictions haven’t been so successful. Rejecting the advice of one of its own committees, physicians at the American Medical Association (AMA) will now classify obesity, which affects about one-third of Americans, as a disease, similar to diabetes and cancer. While there is no standard criteria for such definitions, the designation could contribute to de-stigmatizing obesity, lead to wider coverage of treatments by insurers— Medicare and other insurers currently exclude reimbursement for weight loss drugs— and greater willingness by doctors to address and treat the condition among their patients...