Re: Support Doctors, Pharmaceuticals, USDA Food Pyramid; Eat Your Wheaties!

jay wrote:
As high as 1 out of 10 persons may be suspectible to gluten.

What brought this on?

(By the way, Thunderbird underlines that "suspectible" word, and when counting things, "many" is more appropriate than "high." Also, "villi" has two l's.)

In this study, we sought...

Who's "we"?

Most of the stuff you've posted here is simple common sense, such as diseases leading to morbidity, and neuropathy frequently involving peripheral neuropathy.

But unless one has some sort of GI problem, how would gluten or gliadin get into circulation, much less to the peripheral nerves? Shouldn't you have mentioned something like "leaky gut syndrome" first? If gliadin is getting into the bloodstream, that's where I'd begin the discussion. After all, that's why they call this stuff "gluten enteropathy"!

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