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Ayurveda recommends wheat for many constitutions and conditions.

The gluten free diet movement has now become a multibillion dollar food business extending from the United States to the entire world. Gluten almost seems to be the worst food danger, more negatively portrayed than meat. Whole sections of natural food stores may be gluten free. Certain items like milk, corn or potatoes that never had gluten may now be advertised as gluten free. There are gluten free bakeries and gluten free varieties of every sort of cake and pastry. Yet wheat has been the most widely used primary food item for the world for several thousands of years from the beginning of agriculture, from Europe and North Africa through the Middle East and India to China. It has long been central in the diet of North America as well. Barley and rye, also widely used grains, contain some gluten also and are sometimes rejected along with wheat, greatly reducing in our diet the traditional grains most commonly used.