Aren promoters of the Gluten Free Diet nothing but “Volvo driving, dope smoking, long-haired, FM types”?
No, not really. My friends consider me particularly conservative, for instance. Well, there is some grain of truth to the stereotype, through. Eccentricity or paranoia are consistent with certain neurological effects of gluten, and any drug use* is consistent with a pattern of self-medication for the suffering associated with gluten intolerance. Sure, the anti-gluten literature of the 70’s and 80’s had a definite anti-capitalist flair. And food industrialists would definitely be happy to push wheat on us simply because it is cheap and habit forming. HOWEVER, it is my observation that people out on both ends of the American political spectrum seem to have similarly elevated rates of symptoms of gluten sensitivity. In fact, I hypothesize that the farther out you go either way, the higher the rates of the condition.
