<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Christine Oldenburg contacted me about the President's allergies and asked what results I wanted from contacting the Washington Post or some other news media about the President's sensitivity to wheat. I began to write an answer just to Christine, and decided that perhaps I am talking to all of you when I say that the following are the things I want to accomplish: I want some public awareness of celiac disease. I want some action on food labels. I want the medical professionals to know more about the disease and quit missing diagnosis for years and years while people get sicker and sicker. I want hospitals to have dietitians who know about gluten-free food. I want pharmacists who are concerned and aware of the possibility of harmful gluten in some prescriptions, and I want the pharmaceutical houses to make pills that are gluten-free. I want oral polio vaccine and adhesive for I V's that will not cause gluten reactions. I want the whole host of people who are asymptomatic but have lousy dispositions because they eat gluten to know that their nasty tempers might be caused by gluten. I want people who go thru life with a hypothetical gauze bag wrapped around their brains to function at 100% of mental capacity because they change to gluten-free diets. I want the number of osteoporosis patients to decline. And I want to be able to go to a normal restaurant and order food I know is safe. That's what I want. If a national figure is found to react negatively to gluten, perhaps some public awareness will happen and a few of those goals will be be at least approached. Gayle Kennedy