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I decided  to find out whether I get an immediate response to eating
offending gluten.
 
So I used a whole wheat cracker -Triscuit. The ingredient list: whole
wheat, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and salt. 3 grams of carbohydrate
and 3/7 of a gram of protein per cracker - so both from the wheat. (So how
much gliadin?)
 
Well, for one cracker for me certainly no response over the next 6-8 hours.
Am I unusual?
 
As a scientist I don't accept this as a license to eat that much gluten.
 
There are 3 separate multi-step paths to cancer, to villi destruction  and
to the immediate response. All begin with the toxic protein; each has
personal sensitivity factors in them. It's tempting  to think there's only
pathway of micro-steps that gives immediate response first, villi
destruction later and cancer still later. If that then perhaps the cracker
test would safely allow me to eat some.
 
But, just as consistent with what little is known,  each pathway could be
completely independent of the others, that is, working in parallel. So I
could be having villi destruction and anti-body formation, yet little in
the way of the digestives juices that are related to immediate response.
 
So it looks to me as if being less sensitive to the immediate response
means being more, not less, vigilant, on the diet?
 
                        Kemp Randolph
                        Long Island
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