« There are definitely real gluten-related disorders that people have to cope with, but these are vanishingly rare. Celiac disease causes people's immune system

« There are definitely real gluten-related disorders that people have to cope with, but these are vanishingly rare. Celiac disease causes people's immune systems to violently attack their small intestine whenever they eat gluten. About 1 percent of Americans have celiac disease, according to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. » 1% is not vanishingly rare! « Even more rare are genuine wheat allergies, which affect an estimated 0.1 percent of people in Westernized countries. » 0.1% -- also not vanishingly rare.