[Neil K Walk]

Again, gluten-free was not originally a “fad diet.” It was something that was prescribed by medical professionals to treat a medical condition. For those of us with family members who were prescribed to follow the GFCF diet it used to be very hard to find products that didn’t contain gluten unless we learned to cook gluten free, which required a significant monetary expense for some ingredients like xantham gum and arrowroot flour. In many ways it was healthier because we weren’t eating so much processed foods.

The spike in GF prepared foods was as much the food/pharmaceutical industry trying to lure people back into the fold by marketing to them aggressively. Unfortunately the masses fell prey to the buzzwords and as such what was once an effective course of treatment has been dismissed as a “fad diet.”