IS GLUTEN REALLY THE PROBLEM?
HISTORY Before Gluten-free became the widespread trend that it is rapidly becoming today I had been gluten-free since college (completely by accident). Before that there was a time when I was growing up that my father used to make bread for us EVERY Sunday. He would throw anything he could find into the bread: bananas, zucchini, walnuts and probably a lot of other things I wouldn't want to know. He would bake at least a couple pans of it because he knew that skinny little Mary would probably down at least a half loaf of it in one sitting because NOTHING beats hot, steamy homemade bread right out of the oven! I NEVER reacted to my father's bread or gained weight from it. Even some of the commercial breads in the 70's that we ate didn't cause me any problems. My only childhood eating issue was lactose intolerance. It wasn't until I moved to Chicago that I picked up weight from college eating processed foods that had never been introduced into my diet until then. When ...
