I feel that most of these allergies fall into four categories
1. True allergy (not sure of the abundance of this one, although a friend of mine is)
2. Fad diet idiocy.
3. Environmental sensitivity (contamination from industrial activity, bad grain)
4. Placebo effect (ate contaminated sandwich, otherwise food poisoning, think allergic to gluten afterwards, mind over matter, get sick from gluten)
6. People don't go outside. You see a major increase in allergic reactions in populations that regularly stay indoors and don't get exposed to allergens early on in life
Not that long. The Neolithic period began about 10,000 years ago, and that was the beginning of farming and agricultural societies. While there may have possibly been advanced people we have yet to discover making bread 20k years ago, the archaeological and scientific consensus is that civilizations growing wheat started in the Fertile Crescent ~10k years ago.
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The 5,000 years of bread is more realistic on a global level of people eating bread regularly, because similar farming revolutions happened at later times around the world, as late as just 6k years ago.
Also, before the Columbian Exchange (global exchange kicked off by Columbus bringing European food, animals, diseases, plants to the Americas) there were civilizations that didn't have wheat bread as a staple. Central America and the Andes for example were primarily corn and potato eating peoples, respectively.
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I think it's a combination of there being more people in general, more options available for gluten free people to eat (my mum can't eat gluten and trust me we really struggled to find stuff but now there's loads of options) and people treating it like a healthy diet thing that make it seem like loads of people suddenly have it
1. True allergy (not sure of the abundance of this one, although a friend of mine is)
2. Fad diet idiocy.
3. Environmental sensitivity (contamination from industrial activity, bad grain)
4. Placebo effect (ate contaminated sandwich, otherwise food poisoning, think allergic to gluten afterwards, mind over matter, get sick from gluten)
Also, before the Columbian Exchange (global exchange kicked off by Columbus bringing European food, animals, diseases, plants to the Americas) there were civilizations that didn't have wheat bread as a staple. Central America and the Andes for example were primarily corn and potato eating peoples, respectively.
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