I work in the food industry, and I go to school for food. I'm around all sorts of people with all sorts of ideas about what foods are good for humans, what foods are bad, and what foods everyone should or shouldn't be eating. Recently, the gluten-free craze has been running rampant in America. Where before, the phrase "gluten-free" was rarely seen, now, there are entire sections of the supermarket filled with highly processed but gluten-free foods. While that's great for people with a diagnosed gluten intolerance, celiac's disease, or true wheat, barley, or rye allergies, the number of people who are insisting on gluten-free foods is skyrocketing way faster than those discovering a true intolerance.
It's been driving me more and more and more crazy that there are people who insist that they are gluten-free, yet can't say definitively what gluten is. KNOW YOUR BODY; KNOW YOUR INTOLERANCES. (And for goodness sake, don't tell me you don't eat gluten "for health reasons" unless you actually have a real, medical reason to not eat it.)
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