This Blog is Gluten-Free!

Food faddism is a fascinating phenomenon. 

I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss.  Maybe it does.  But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries or the loss of his mortal anus to colorectal cancer?  On the other hand, you are not going to take away my olive oil and nuts.

So I'm sticking with the Mediterranean diet as a via media between every Scylla and Charybdis the food faddists can fabricate.  But don't make a religion of this stuff.   Brother Jackass needs to be kept in shape.  Well maintained, he will carry you and your worldly loads over many a pons ansinorum.  Just don't expect him to convey you to the summum bonum.

Avoid fads and extremes.  Where is the extremist Nathan Pritikin now?  Long dead.  A little butter won't kill you.  Use common sense.  Eat less, move more.  Keep things in perspective.  Just one pornographic movie can damage your soul irreparably, but one greasy double bacon cheeseburger will have no adverse effect on your body worth talking about.    And fight the nanny-staters and food fascists every chance you get. A pox upon their houses of cards.

And now the anti-gluten craze is abroad in the land.  Those with Celiac Disease need to avoid the stuff.  But I don't see that that the rest of us need to fear it or that our well-being will be improved by abstaining from it.  Be skeptical.