Maryellen

While I beleive it takes the world time to "catch up" with the understanding of what Celiac disease is, I don't go along with your logic. First, you CAN have a very, very bad reaction by just inhaling flour. My daughter sufferend a severe breakdown while in a classroom with kids blowing flour around after doing a baking project. I suffer from siezures...

I am of Irish, English and Scottish descent but I don't think it has to do with "nationality" per say. When I remember back to my childhood some of the elders from Europe knew that bread, cakes, cookies and gravies were not for "our type of people". My paternal grandmother was absolutely firm about it and I remember a pretty heated moment between my grandmother...