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Originally Posted by 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.
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I remember my mother going through this 20 years ago when she was first diagnosed. There were virtually no gluten-free options available in stores back then (at least in the UK) and for several years she actually got GF bread on prescription through the NHS. I'd take xanthan gum from here in the US over for her when we visited, because it was so much cheaper here. Nowadays, she has so many more options.