[svachalek]

This is typical "help, the 99% is being oppressed because the 1% is not being oppressed" garbage. There's gluten everywhere. In a lot of American cuisine, every single item on the menu has wheat flour in it.

Gluten isn't a phobia, it's an allergen that causes a variety of symptoms in people who are sensitive to it, from constipation and sneezing all the way up to bleeding and brain damage.

[bananamogul]

All the way up to death, actually. Celiacs who consume gluten destroy their digestive system and die.

You know how celiac disease was first discovered?

Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.

[gib444]

> You know how celiac disease was first discovered?

> Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending towards death got much better. Then after WWII, they suddenly got sick again. Someone put two and two together.

It was the link to wheat specifically that was discovered in the Netherlands, not the discovery of celiac disease itself.

The disease has a much longer history [0] [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Etymology_and_...

[1] https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/

[bluefirebrand]

I really hope that the person you replied to was being sarcastic..

It's getting better to be celiac but it's still very difficult. People who can eat gluten aren't being inconvenienced in any way by celiacs needing gluten free food at grocers