Eli5: what is so bad about gluten and why is everyone gluten intolerant nowadays?

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Gluten has always been a huge part of diet so how come people are now intolerant? Is it just a trend? Were people always intolerant but there was no other option? Or has gluten changed though breeding?

Is it possible that people have made themselves more intolerant by excluding gluten from their diet thus losing the ability to digest it?

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Spent most of my life never hearing about gluten and suddenly like 20 percent of the population is allergic to it. Sorry, have to be skeptical that it is a real thing in the vast majority of cases.

I believe most people simply eat too much food, and don’t get nearly enough exercise, and are looking for something else to blame the results on. Gluten is convenient.

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