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by bananamogul
19 days ago
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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. |
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> 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/