On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 4:15:53 PM UTC-4, ImStillMags wrote:
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> All the research that is being done now on the REAL problem people are having digesting gluten is pointing to the massive amounts of chemicals sprayed on crops.

I'm wheat intolerant - Different symptoms than are usual for true testable allergies but the symptoms are real. I can turn them off with a few days of careful avoidance of wheat, triticale, spelt and kamut. I can turn the symptoms on with one whole wheat bun, or a good yeast roll, or the breading of a KFC value meal. Of course if I'm going to make myself deliberately sick like that it should be a pizza with a whole wheat crust or some chicken fried steak made with fresh ground whole wheat.

Maybe my family is an outlier - My maternal grandfather who born in 1909 for his entire life had the exact same list of symptoms that I get from wheat.. But back in his day no one thought it was even possible for wheat to cause problems so he never went a day in his life without something made with wheat. It is reported that other male members of his family in previous generations had the same list of symptoms as well. It just ran in that branch of the family to cough constantly, have indigestion after most meals and so on.

What I think is people realized it is *possible* for wheat to give people problems so they stopped ignoring the possibility and starting looking for the possibility. Back in 1999 I only went wheat free because I went on a diet with an elimination and challenge system as a part of its directions.