As promised in the beginning of the challenge, this will be about all the Miley Cyruses and Gwyneth Paltrows of the world — the people who follow a gluten-free diet for no other reason than the "diet."

Gluten-free products have been a wet dream for the companies producing them. The irresponsibility of food manufacturers has caused a lot of misinformation, and within the last few years, this fad diet has created more than $4 billion in profits for those manufacturers.

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I am from a traditional Italian family that revolves mostly around food. Hell, we spend the majority of our time during dinner planning the next meal while we're still fucking eating.

And that's not an easy task when you "can't cook with this" or "have to substitute that" or "dammit, does EVERYTHING have gluten in it?" Remember, though, this challenge wasn't just "giving up" gluten as much as it was about eating products made gluten-free that would have normally contained gluten ... Continue Reading

Not everything I tried this month tasted like rotting Chinese food soaked in embalming fluid. Just check out the list of foods below. Without getting into a heated debate about Monsanto, let's just calm our tits and agree that a lot of things can go wrong when chemically screwing around with food. A lot. Pizza, beer, and cookies are no exception to this rule.

But in this case I found the best of all three of those — and, like a 6-year-old, that's the type of diet I can embrace ... Continue Reading

Remember that M. Night Shyamalan movie where plants banned together to say, "Fuck you," to all of humanity by releasing a toxin that caused people to repeatedly stab themselves, hurl themselves off roofs, blow their own brains out, stand catatonically in front of an oncoming lawn mower, listen to Justin Bieber, and just pull out all the tricks from a big giant bag of fun suicides?

We laughed hysterically, not only because we never thought Shyamalan could produce anything worse ... Continue Reading