This article is the second in a three-part series on gluten-related health conditions and the gluten-free diet. The first article in the series is “When Gluten-Free Eating is the Best Medicine.”  The third article in the series is “Think Outside The Bread Box.”
It isn’t just your imagination: Wheat allergies and gluten-related health conditions, including celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, are much more common today than they were a few decades ago. There has been a real increase in their prevalence. The question is: Why?
The simple answer is, we humans have strayed a long way from the nutrient-rich, pesticide-free food on which we thrive, and the more we have strayed, the more health problems we have developed. Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity are two of many disease expressions of that….