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Dear Ms Rose:
 
Regarding the flippant reference in the above-referenced book to gluten  
intolerance, as a celiac and an attorney, may I suggest that your company do  some 
fact-checking before publishing a book with such an irresponsible reference  
to a serious disease.  
 
If this was a mere fad eating-style, why would Columbia University,  the 
University of Chicago, the University of Maryland and other respected  
institutions of higher learning in the US, and around the world, allocate  resources to 
fund complete research centers studying this disease?
 
While you are thinking about that, you might consider an apology to  those of 
us and our families who have to deal with this disease every time  we put 
anything in or near our mouths (including not only food, but beverages,  
prescription and over-the-counter medicines, toothpaste and other dental  products) 
for the rest of our lives. 
 
More importantly,  if you had bothered to check into this, you would  know 
that there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of undiagnosed  people 
with this disease around the world with a variety of symptoms.  The  longer they 
go undiagnosed, the higher the probability that they will suffer  other 
auto-immune conditions, other diseases and even death.  By  perpetuating 
misinformation, you increase the chances that at least such  people, avoid diagnostic 
tests that would lead them to gluten-free eating,  the only known way of 
overcoming the serious consequence of this  disease.   
 
June H. Brettler, Esq.

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