Comments: When true Christian faith in a culture is weak-to-absent, superstition fills in that vacuum.

"They die pretty-much ideal deaths."
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There's something wrong with this girls circuit board, and I've known it all along.

Posted by ghostsniper at April 18, 2015 7:18 PM

Much ado about nothing. Might as well save the whales or liberate caged bantam chickens. Get a pet rock and a mood ring and stay away from me.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine that occurs in genetically predisposed people of all ages from middle infancy onward.
Symptoms include pain and discomfort in the digestive tract, chronic constipation and diarrhea ...
Vitamin deficiencies are often noted in people with coeliac disease owing to the reduced ability of the small intestine to properly absorb nutrients from food.

A gluten-free diet is primarily used to treat celiac disease. Gluten causes inflammation in the small intestines of people with celiac disease. Eating a gluten-free diet helps people with celiac disease control their signs and symptoms and prevent complications.

About 1 in 100 people — about 1 percent — have celiac disease, an inherited autoimmune disease that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten is ingested.
About .4 percent of people have a doctor-diagnosed wheat allergy, according to a 2006 study.

Posted by chasmatic at April 19, 2015 7:14 AM

Sometimes, as chasmatic says, people actually are made terribly ill by this grain. Just because some people get tired of hearing about it doesn't cure the disease.

Posted by pbird at April 19, 2015 2:16 PM

To be sure, celiac disease affects some people. 1%. Gluten-free is the fad of the week. Free range chickens, tofu, organic vegetables, salt, real butter, animal fat, &c. Misguided folks can make things worse following the popular diets.

"Yet paradoxically, most of the people who reach for gluten-free products don’t have celiac disease and or even a sensitivity to wheat, Peter H.R. Green, MD, director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, told WebMD. "The market for gluten-free products is exploding. Why exactly we don’t know. Many people may just perceive that a gluten-free diet is healthier."

In fact, it isn’t. For people with celiac disease, a gluten-free diet is essential. But for others, "unless people are very careful, a gluten-free diet can lack vitamins, minerals, and fiber," says Green.

ref:
http://www.webmd.com/diet/truth-about-gluten

Posted by chasmatic at April 19, 2015 6:08 PM

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