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To Gluten or Not to Gluten?

Rethinking the Gluten-Free Craze

by Maria Atwood, CNHP

“After a while the young man sat up and looked at the heavens, at the twinkling white stars, and then
away across the shadows of round hills in the dusk. …The dreaming hills with their precious rustling
wheat meant more than even a spirit could tell. Where had the wheat come from that had seeded these
fields? Whence the first and original seeds, and where were the sowers? Back in the ages! The stars,
the night, the dark blue of heaven hid the secret in their impenetrableness. Beyond them surely was
the answer, and perhaps peace.”
Zane Grey, The Desert of Wheat (1919)
From the book: Heritage Harvest
by Richard D. Scheuerman & Alexander C. McGregor

fter some years of enjoying delicious grain reci-
pes, I actually got to the point where I was about
Ato toss the grain baby out with the bath water!

Why? Well, from many of the friendly Weston A. Price

Foundation discussion groups and blogs that I and another
WAPF buddy of mine follow, it seems of late that the urgent
message to go gluten-free was the last great impetus since

man landed on the moon!

I began to see a deluge of recipes featuring alternative flours for baking.
Almond flour was the most frequently suggested replacement for wheat
flours. This new standard is not only a regular part of many WAPF-friendly
blogs, but can be found virtually all over the Internet and is sadly becom-
ing the norm. Additionally, there are the many affirmations that at last, we
have finally come to realize (drum-roll) that it was the gluten that caused
all those health problems! Give up the glutenous poison and a near nirvana
state of health would be ours! Who could argue with these claims?

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