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On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, J. Murray wrote:

> The term celiac disease does indeed refer to a disease.  what you call a
> healed celiac I dont know.
> ideas.  we could return to the original term used by Samuel Gee in 1888,
> the Coeliac affliction.  or  gluten sensitivity,
> I did overhear a waitress at hotel in Florida at which a number of people
> with celiac disease were staying and having b'fast call out in a
> wonderful cockney accent " Who are the GLUTONS"
> any one with any suggestions?

I much prefer "gluten sensitive" or "gluten intolerant". Then it becomes
just semantics, and nothing to set us apart & mark us as freaks. So it
becomes, "I am gluten sensitive & my blood type is O pos." Factual, not
descriptive.

That's my vote!

Becky Markle

And we glutons are sitting away from the croutons, right?