Thread by @thequalitygirl

No. 1/130 people getting properly diagnosed w #celiacdisease or allergies “popularized” safe gluten free food. We fought for it ourselves.
@GwynethPaltrow popularized pseudoscience & not taking people seriously whose GF diets are medically-necessary.
m.eonline.com/news/1021344/g…

We fought for our children and ourselves. We called companies. We voted with our dollars. We’ve been vocal online for decades. It is the height of arrogance for Gwyneth to claim a few articles on GOOP and a cookbook 4 years ago deserve any credit. #celiac

Because it’s not a “lifestyle craze” for hundreds of thousands. It’s not a wellness fad. It’s life or death. And amazing advocates & activists like @GFWatchdog fight every day to make sure gluten-free food is consistently safe & companies are accountable.

But sure, tell us more about how people laughed at you, Gwyneth. And I’ll tell you howcompanies trying to attract your acolytes cut corners & release “gluten free” food that isn’t safe for people w celiac disease. They repeatedly land celiacs like my daughter in the hospital.

They do that because
instead letting “gluten free” food be driven by celiacs who can not live without GF food
or defined based on what’s safe for them,
people like you, Gwyneth, turned it into a marketing buzzword & money-making “lifestyle craze.”

And that “safety” is not ab some vague wellness. Glutening puts my #celiac daughter at risk of malnutrition, dehydration, recurrent miscarriage, intestinal lymphoma & other cancers, nerve damage, painful rash dermatitis herpeformis, hypospleenism, osteoporosis, & anemia.

People w #celiacdisease, their families, doctors, & consumer advocates & activists spent decades making ourselves seen, holding companies & the FDA accountable. If safe #glutenfree food is available, it’s bc we fought for it.
Not because Gwyneth Paltrow wrote a cookbook in 2015

My daughter was a 15lb 2 year old b4 she was diagnosed.
She was literally starving with a full stomach.
Eating gluten free is life & death for her and 3 MILLION people in the US alone.
Before celebrities turned it into a lifestyle craze, GF was about keeping them safe.

Gwyneth Paltrow is ableist & exploitative.

She’s made millions making gluten free a “lifestyle craze” w/o doing 1 thing to make the world safer for 3 million+ celiacs.

That isn’t something to be proud of.

If anyone gets credit for “popularizing” the gluten free diet, it’s Dr. Willem-Karel Dicke.
He used it to save lives, and certainly didn’t profit or make millions off it.
Isn’t that what you really mean by “popularize,” Gwyneth? Exploit & profit off it?

glutenfreewatchdog.org/news/the-glute…

Without Gwyneth’s “gluten free lifestyle craze,” we wouldn’t have had @Cheerios poisoning (& ignoring) thousands of ppl w celiac disease.
My daughter wouldn’t have missed two weeks of school bc they decided profiting off a fad was more important than exploiting FDA loopholes.

& I wouldn’t have to teach my 10 yo that just bc something says “gluten free” doesn’t mean it’s gluten free.
Let that sink in.
Bc ppl turned gluten-free into a fad diet, it is legal to label food “gluten free” that has enough gluten for my daughter 2 miss 2 weeks of school.

I’m not just saying that as a parent & advocate. I am an expert in manufacturing & quality control. I was the youngest person to ever receive a quality management cerification from the American Society for Quality. I taught manufacturing quality management for a living. And -

... there is a straight line between the fad diet market Gwyneth Paltrow & her ilk created (and profit off of!) and food manufacturers selling “gluten free” food that is unsafe for people who *need* gluten free food.

That includes the fact that over the last 15 years, they’ve manipulated laws & FDA rules to make it easier to call something “gluten free” even if it tests positive for it 2x, 5x, 10x, or 50x the 20ppm gluten level that is supposed to be the legal standard for gluten-free labels.

None of that has helped people with #celiacdisease or allergies.

Instead, we have 2 do more research
use more sick days
miss more school
pay for more copays & tests
expend more effort trying to convince waiters we’re not exaggerating
& assume even more risk every damn day.

Things Gwyneth Paltrow could do that would actually help:
*Lobby the FDA to ensure anything labeled gluten free has 20ppm or less
*Lobby for harsher penalties for violating labeling laws
*Eliminate food deserts & increase access to safe GF food for low-income individuals
con’t

(Con’t)
*Increase access to low-sugar gluten-free school lunch options, esp for kids & teens on reduced or free lunch
*Support stricter labeling & transparency for supplements & medication, which don’t have to disclose gluten
*Educate ppl about cross-contamination
(Con’t)

(Con’t)
*Donate or advocate to make endoscopies, biopsies, allergy tests, & registered dieticians accessible & affordable.
*Literally ANYTHING that makes gluten-free food safer and more accessible for anyone who isn’t an affluent white woman, Gwyneth. ANYTHING. The bar is low.

But instead, we all get to deal with major new sites broadcasting the blatantly ableist, exploitative, bullshit claim that Gwyneth Paltrow created a market for gluten-free food in 2015. 🙄

I’m too tired for this shit, folks.

We are all too tired for this shit.

This typo is bugging me.
It should be “and exploiting FDA loopholes.”