I like anecdotes! Some things are bad. Other stuff is good! A TV doctor said science-y words!
It's a conspiracy!

I'm glad the Great Gluten Scare is mainly over. I guess having to go without our favourite foods or having to eat expensive, poorly made substitutes dampened the hysteria. Mankind will not be saved at this time, but we can eat glorious gluten in peace again.

Some people are likely able to maintain good health on a diet containing lots of grains. I think it is correct that gluten focus is a bad idea; the real issue is carbohydrates of any sort, except, perhaps, the marginal carbohydrates one can get from vegetables, many of which are consumed by intestinal bacteria.

But the evidence is pretty much in for thousands of people: eating a diet high in fat, low in carbohydrate, which is closer to what many ate prior to the domestication of grains, gives a substantially better quality of life.

The dietary guidelines that we have border on depraved indifference to human life: those adapted for grains will do well, but those who are not will enjoy terrible health. Unfortunately, only the wealthy will ever be able to eliminate cheap carbohydrates from their diets.

It breaks down to spending more money on less healthy foods.

Sure there are the few that actually have an allergy to gluten, but for the rest of the people they are just paying for snake oil and becoming less healthy in the process.