I bet you know people who are gluten intolerant, but they just don't know it!
I started the Atkins diet in January 1996, and last September I discovered
that I was allergic to wheat flour by eating a piece of birthday cake I'd
made for a friend.  Flour was the only ingredient in that cake that I'd not
eaten in the previous 4 months.  The cake precipitated an immediate asthma
attack, and I remembered that I used to feel that way all the time before
going lowcarb, and just dealt with it.  I'm hopeful that going to a full
paleo diet will allow me to shed the remaining seasonal allergies and asthma.
Next spring will tell.  (By the way, I'm northern European descent, too:
German, Swedish, English, Irish.)

Lisa Sporleder
Ester, Alaska  (75 degrees, sunny, 20h 18min possible sunshine today!)

>I've never heard that Celiac Disease is in any way prominent among Jews;
>and have never known a Jew with Celiac Disease; in fact, in the flesh
>I've only known one person who was gluten intolerant, and he was Gentile