On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Mary wrote: > >different answers. For example, people of European > >extraction have been eating wheat much longer than they have been > > Except for Irish and other Celts. I think Don or someone said that Celtic > people have had wheat only very recently (relative to some other > populations) and have a very high rate of gluten intolerance (and also > schizophenia) But they've been eating tomatoes for even less time. Granted, they've probably had wheat for no more than 2000 years. Tomatoes were introduced much more recently than that. Todd Moody [log in to unmask]