Are veggie, vegan, no salt etc diets causing madness in UK?

When gluten intolerance kicked in for me I went around 3 years with no help from anywhere, no doctors or 'specialists' knew what was wrong with me. I had to work out what the problem was for myself. An early step was in the Library reading a book by an American Doctor who was getting a lot of stick by know all Doctors and specialists, his main comment that influenced me was "if you are having stomach problems, look to what you are putting into your stomach.

I eventually took note of stomach problems I suffered for a few months when I was about 17 years old. It cleared up when I stopped eating mother's home made scones. When I asked what she put into her scones she said nothing special but she did use Hard Flour, I found out many years later that hard flour is extra high in gluten.
 
I suspect that people in the past just had to get on with life, just as I did for 3 years, only now since Gluten problems have been exposed as such, then it is being recognised in people. Perhaps IBS is still waiting to be recognised as a gluten problem.