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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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