Have you been considering altering your diet or wondering what the hell all this gluten stuff is about? Well, in short it is fairly complicated, but the main point is the kind of wheat being grown and consumed is not the same kind previously raised, and our ancestors didn't eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well! The food system promoted by the U.S. is driven by dollars and based on growing cheap wheat, corn, and soybeans and trying to stuff it and modify it into nearly every product on the market.
This documentary explains more elegantly why so many have difficulty with wheat and other ingredients in our industrial commodity food chain. The hybrids of wheat today are grown to resist pests, not to aid your digestion. If we consume diets void of nutrition and that deplete the natural biotic flora of our gut we are left with the chronic diseases that the big pharma pill pushers welcome and depend on. In short, we have everything backwards... we need to spend more on healthy food as an investment in ourselves and less on healthcare dependency after our bodies are already messed up!
Overall, regarding health, each of us is different and needs a diet tailored to our particular personal and cultural traits. However, there is consensus that much more vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, and quality protein is needed. Biological pathways are complex, subtle, and function with proper, intelligent eating habits. Yet our history of idiotic "food pyramids" and corporate food culture has left us in the sad state of health we are in. Like so many facets our culture, we need to deleverage from the corrupting influence of monetary, marketed, mass consumer culture and rediscover our healthy roots in natural foods. Check out "What's with Wheat?" (available on netflix) to take a step in that direction.
Peace! @ClumsySilverDad