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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

At 01:55 PM 4/30/01 +0100, David J Walland wrote:

>The idea that tiny amounts of gluten build up to large
>amounts has recently become a feature of a number of
>postings and replies, especially with regard to Codex
>Alimentarius purified wheat starch.
>(cruelly cropped here :)
>
>The human body has a number of ways of dealing with
>proteins and these will always eventually break down any
>(non-self) protein or other amino acid sequence into its
>constituent amino acids.  (All of which are always present
>in our bodies).
>
>This is one worry that you don't need to have.

David is right here. What do you think all that diarrhea is about when you
get just a touch of gluten in your diet? It's to clean out the damaging
substance from your body so you can do it again in a few days :) If we
accumulated it, where would we be putting it? Hell, if it accumulated in us
we would eventually all have brown eyes :)

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