I'm so glad you've benefitted from this new market generated. In a much less serious way I've also enjoyed the fruits of this fad - I eat a low carb lifestyle because it helps a lot with other health conditions, and gluten-free food has led to increasing popularity of things like seaweed snacks, riced cauliflower (amazing!) and other low carb options. So I probably should've admitted to being biased in my original comment, really.
Actually, now that you bring it up, it seems like this gluten-free fad is one of the few relatively harmless health misconceptions. The anti-vaccination issue is one you've mentioned as extremely harmful (and I agree) and another I can think of involves misconceptions around antibiotics, particularly in Asia. (The latter I recently heard some fascinating information about regarding tracking of bacteria resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics within Canadian hospitals - we live in a trepidatious world, it sometimes seems.)
I'm so glad you've benefitted from this new market generated. In a much less serious way I've also enjoyed the fruits of this fad - I eat a low carb lifestyle because it helps a lot with other health conditions, and gluten-free food has led to increasing popularity of things like seaweed snacks, riced cauliflower (amazing!) and other low carb options. So I probably should've admitted to being biased in my original comment, really.
Actually, now that you bring it up, it seems like this gluten-free fad is one of the few relatively harmless health misconceptions. The anti-vaccination issue is one you've mentioned as extremely harmful (and I agree) and another I can think of involves misconceptions around antibiotics, particularly in Asia. (The latter I recently heard some fascinating information about regarding tracking of bacteria resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics within Canadian hospitals - we live in a trepidatious world, it sometimes seems.)