Mon, Feb-20-06, 12:57
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Posts: 1,267
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Plan: Fat Flush Plan
Stats: 233/146/150
BF:22%
Progress: 105%
Location: west coast
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Hi Lanny,
It's my understanding that northern Europeans are most likely to have gluten "issues" because they're the ones eating a diet heavy in gluten-rich foods the longest. For example, in Asia, rice is the grain of choice. In the Americas, it was corn/maize/quinoa. In Africa, it's teff and other grains. None of these have gluten and therefore few of the native populations have celiac responses...
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Celiac disease is the most common genetic disease in Europe. In Italy about 1 in 250 people and in Ireland about 1 in 300 people have celiac disease. It is rarely diagnosed in African, Chinese, and Japanese people.
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According to this article: http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/cul-wht.html, eating grains high in gluten is a fairly recent event (since Roman times?), started in Europe so, IPSO FACTO, the Europeans have been eating the diet longest and developed the most problems with it. And our medical communities are only just now "connecting the dots" when it comes to symptoms and gluten-related diseases/conditions.
Anyhoo, I blame my ancestors! Why couldn't they have come from India?? ROFL!
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