As a physician who works with diabetes and pre-diabetes I am dismayed by this story about gluten. In the context of millions of years of human existence, grains are a new addition to the human diet as of only the past 10,000 years. The advantage of agriculture was the ability to form settlements rather than migrate with animals for food. But our hunter-gatherer (pre-agriculture) bodies never really adjusted to grains; as soon as grains were introduced dental decay emerged. We still have no need for grains. A diet rich in grains is promoted by the USDA as a way to fill it's mandate to promote agriculture, not public health. A gluten-free diet is beneficial not only for persons with celiac disease, but for millions upon millions of Americans who would never qualify for that diagnosis. Grains are poor in calcium bioavailability (contrary to this report), and phytates in grain fiber rob the meal, and your body, of nutrients (the "advantages" of a high fiber diet are greatly exaggerated--ask any traditional Eskimo who never saw grain and rarely encountered vegetation yet lived entirely on animals without constipation, tooth decay, diabetes, heart disease or cancer). Replace grains with non-starchy vegetables, eat high quality proteins, eat whole fruits (no juices) in moderation (berries are a good choice), infuse dishes with soup stock (mineral-rich bone broth) daily, make every bite nutrient dense (hard to do when eating grains), and you find your path to wellness, sans grains.

there's a difference between a trend and allergies! in Europe, they have regular, not super gluten, hybrid wheat and they have fewer allergies and even people who have gluten allergies can eat the wheat there. we have so much crap in our foods!! my partner can't eat many foods and he gets more than enough fiber, vitamins, etc. because he eats fresh, whole foods!! and B vitamins and other minerals should be coming from vegetables and fruits. there's nothing wrong with not eating wheat or other gluten. there are so many amazing "alternative" flours, like the garbanzo flour, amaranth flour, tapioca starch, the list goes on! the problem is in the additives replacing the good food where we used to get our nutrients from.

I was shocked to see that the reason the Dr in this video called the gluten free diet dangerous was because wheat is fortified with vitamins and that gf diets lack fiber. I have celiac disease and I think that is a load of crap. I eat plenty of fiber in cereals (gluten free), beans, fruits and vegetables. You can also get vitamin B from other things, not just wheat. I think someone was paid to put this in the media because of all the money that is made by the wheat industry in our country. It is in everything and it doesn't need to be. DO YOU OWN RESEARCH. Very disappointed in Nightline.

Try avoiding soy. Try finding a bread product that isn't made with soy.