<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Recently, my gastroenterologist asked me how I was doing since I added oats to my diet. I told him that I hadn't because the information on oats was still inconclusive. He said that since he read the article in the New England Journal of Medicine, he has been recommending to his few celiac patients that they go ahead and add oats to their diets. I was very surprised that this doctor would make such a determination based on one article, one isolated bit of research, but apparently he has. Is this common practice? I wonder how many gastroenterologists across the country have told their celiac patients to go right ahead and eat oats? Unfortunately, many patients will just go ahead and do as their doctor recommends without knowing that this may not be the best thing for them. That really concerns me, but since I don't have a medical background, all I can do is give my doctor information that I get from the list and hope that he reads and takes it seriously. Other then that, I can only really protect myself by being as informed as possible without being obsessive. Debra Resch West Creek, NJ