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The one thing I give the Times credit for on this issue is debunking the  
current notion that is gaining strength  that everyone can benefit  from a 
gluten-free diet.  This is a disservice to celiacs and others who  need to be 
gluten free.  I am concerned that we are going back to the days  when it was 
viewed as a fad diet.  Restaurants and other places and people  take your 
needs much less seriously when they think it is the "diet of the  month".  
 
 

As for people who don't need to be on a gluten free diet, on average, if  
one substitutes gluten- free bread and other baked goods for  gluten 
-containing ones. it is a less healthy diet.  It is lower  in fiber and protein and 
higher in fat.  In talking to people when I  purchase gluten-free foods I 
have found more and more people who are on the  diet for no reason and have 
ridiculous  notions of what it  means.  One woman told me that wheat is not ok 
unless it is whole  wheat.  And there are many people  who think spelt is 
ok.
 
June in NYC
 


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