<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> I was recently browsing through 'The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing' by Mark Bricklin for something else and came across the following: start quote DROP IN CELIAC DISEASE LINKED TO BREASTFEEDING PRACTICES - Doctors in England are voicing a strongly positive note about what they believe to be an decrease in the number of childhood celiac cases. And this, they say, is due to the fact that more women are breastfeeding their babies these days. In the 'Lancet', December 20-27, 1980, doctors at St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, and at the University of Leeds, wrote, "We believe that the incidence of celiac disease in childhood is falling and that this is directly related to the changes in infant feeding practices occurring in the 1970s." This was followed by a letter from doctors at Taunton and Somerset Hospital, Taunton, who observed a similar decrease since Britain's 1974 recommendations on child nutrition, "amongst which were the encouragement of breastfeeding and the delayed introduction of cereals and solid foods into the diet until four or six months of age." They concluded, "Delayed introduction of gluten into the diet in infancy may prevent the induction of gluten intolerance and lead to a reduction in the number of patients who present with this disorder." end quote If there is any substance to this, and the book was copyrighted in 1983 by Rodale Press, so it is somewhat dated, but it is still an interesting idea. Grampa Jim Missouri