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Wheat was such a fundamental part of European diets until relatively recently that I suspect most serious celiacs died in childhood in earlier times.
by megaman22 9y ago
Wheat was such a fundamental part of European diets until relatively recently that I suspect most serious celiacs died in childhood in earlier times.
- toyg 9y agoOr just lived with minor discomfort, as plant strains were different and were consumed in much lower quantities anyway.
- cimmanom 9y agoPer the article, mortality rates in children with celiac were extremely high until alternative diets were discovered.
- mirimir 9y agoCeliac disease is far more severe than what's now called "gluten intolerance". But maybe they're related. I get that "Celiac disease results from genetic abnormal immune response to gluten."[0] I'm not sure what that means, in detail. Perhaps there's a particular allele of one of the immunoglobulin genes. But whatever it is, perhaps other alleles cause "gluten intolerance" of varying severity. 0) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16095159 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16095159