<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Walter, A friend of mine who is a doctor called me last night to tell me about this study, which is written up in the latest (?) October issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. It was done in Finland I think and compared two groups of celiac adults with controls (I think there were around 20-25 people in each group but I'm not sure). One group was made up of adults in "remission" (i.e. no intestinal trauma according to the biopsy) and the other group was made up of recently diagnosed celiacs. Adults in the experimental conditions ingested moderate amounts of oats in their daily diets while the controls did not. After some time (6 months?) biopsy revealed neither evidence of new trauma in the GF group nor slower "remission" times in the newly-diagnosed group. Their conclusion: oats in moderate amounts are ok. There is a letter to the editor in the same issue which seems fairly laudatory wrt the methodology of the study. Apologies if I have screwed up in the details of the study (I'm doing this from memory)...perhaps one of the physicians who reads this list and has read the NEJM article can correct/elaborate. Jill Fain Lehman Pittsburgh