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Old 01-06-2019, 09:52 PM
Davis Webb Davis Webb is offline
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Originally Posted by eatswodo View Post
'Almost no-one', right now, is 1 in 133. 2 of my immediate relatives are celiac, and another is, while not being celiac, is decidedly, medically confirmed, intolerant, and effectively has to live as if she is celiac.

That's not nonsense.
The data shows the incidence rate in the US as;

2–13/100,000.

So about 5 people out of 100,000 have the gene. That is no epidemic.

https://www.gastrojournal.org/articl...199-X/fulltext
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