Oh I know.
All these “Gluten-Free” products are the new rage.
Gluten is one of the things that make bread rise.
The “Health Nuts” of the 60’s used to eat Wheat Germ and Gluten as Health Food.
“Lactose-Free’ is another fad. Sure, there ARE people allergic to Wheat Gluten, or who are lactose intolerant. There are also people who are violently allergic to seafood and eggs.
Must we ALL forgo Milk, Eggs, Seafood, Wheat, Nuts, Fats and Sugars because it is not healthy for SOME people to ingest them?
Have you noticed that over the last 30 or so years the number of people with a terrible allergy/intolerance to some damn thing has increased about 1000%? No way I’m buying into that-I’m more inclined to think it is hype to get people to buy some expensive drug or specialty food item.
I’ve eaten the same way since I was a ranch-raised kid-a mostly veggie diet, with lean meat and fish the next item, very few carbs and zero processed sugar-but the veggies are all fresh, no cans and seldom frozen-carbs are from whole grains or starchy veggies, and nothing is processed, unless I’m starving. I guess it is sort of an Atkins/South Beach diet, and unlike many hispanics/latinos no one in my family is even close to overweight, and no one has food allergies.
Maybe all the processed food is responsible for the food allergies-it takes chemicals, after all to process and preserve foods.