>I wonder how many become vegetarians in their hyper-sensitive teen years? Well, I became a vegetarian in undergrad from necessity. I simply could not afford meat, but I could afford spaghetti, day old bread and (stupidly) generic cigarettes. :-( I kept it up for a couple of years after school out of habit. I had been diagnosed with a spastic colon and told to follow a high fiber diet with lots of whole grains. I ended up becomming anemic. I then killed a deer, stocked the freezer and have been an omnivore since. It was about a year and a half ago that I learned that gluten was the problem. Meat - good, wheat - bad, internists - questionable. James at Penn State