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You Are Not Allergic To Gluten

     Without noticing my wife bought a couple of boxes of stuffing for Thanksgiving last year that said that they were gluten-free.  I checked the ingredients, and they're using rice flour and tapioca starch, and other kinds of non-gluten flours, I expect it to be sticky.  Why were there boxes of gluten-free stuffing at the store?  Because around a third of everyone in the United States is avoiding gluten, because somehow they think that they have an allergy to gluten or a sensitivity to gluten.  Quick fact check, neither of those exist, so what is going on?  The following is an excerpt from a book I wrote last year called Macro 4:1:1 For Life available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle, and it's in the Kindle Learning Library.       For more than 25 years the United States has been obsessed with various kinds of low-carb diets.   It all started with the Atkins Diet becoming popular in 1993 and 1994 and continued from there...