On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Mary wrote:
> >different answers. For example, people of European
> >extraction have been eating wheat much longer than they have been
>
> Except for Irish and other Celts. I think Don or someone said that Celtic
> people have had wheat only very recently (relative to some other
> populations) and have a very high rate of gluten intolerance (and also
> schizophenia)
But they've been eating tomatoes for even less time. Granted,
they've probably had wheat for no more than 2000 years. Tomatoes
were introduced much more recently than that.
Todd Moody
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