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Dear Susan, I saw your post and wanted to mention that Dr. B.G. Bottazzo
(discoverer of the ICA islet cell antibodies) spoke at a meeting in
Rome, Italy on October 14, 2000 and said that recent studies indicate
that both milk and gluten (and genetic factors) are somehow responsible
in causing the majority of cases of Type 1 diabetes.  I don't know if
you saw this article http://jama.ama-
assn.org/issues/v283n8/ffull/jqu00000-1.html but celiac is much more
common than originally thought among U.S. children (1 in 33 instead of 1
in 5000).  The cause for this is unclear, but physicians have not been
trained to diagnose celiac and cases of food allergies have skyrocketed
recently (perhaps due to genetically engineered food like the Starlink
corn or chemicals or radioactivity in the environment or who knows what).

    Our 5 year old son was diagnosed diabetic at age 3 then diagnosed celiac
only after we repeatedly prodded the physician to do the test (which was not
covered by our insurance).   We asked for the test only because my husband's
brother was known to be celiac as a child.  Our son also has a very severe
allergy to milk (not an intolerance).  Strange coincidence!

    Best regards,
Sherri

----- Original Message -----
From: "jake howard" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 6:28 AM

> Do you have any information as to why celiac and diabetes are often
> diagnosed together?