I am lactose sensitive and i was before it was cool (its not really cool), but the wheat allergies kill me, my uncle and cousin both have celiac disease that almost killed them before doctors found out what it was. I work retail that sells alot of packaged food products. Every day now I get someone asking if our products are gluten free because they have an allergy. The commonality among these people are that they are fat, gluten allergies generally disrupt the uptake of nutrients, ie you starve to death. You need to do more push aways, not blame it on an “allergy”
University of Maryland has found that about 3.5% of the American population are born with the genes that should ultimately give them gluten intolerance but about half of them don't exhibit any symptoms until after age 50.
So, yup, you can find plenty of fat folks out there suddenly getting Celiac in their senior years!
One of the triggers is minor abdominal surgery of any kind ~ gall bladder removal, appendectomy, patching for a bulging rupture, and worst of all, colonoscopy where "they" actually snip something for later review! Although the research is, at yet, sketchy, what may be happening with surgery is the T-cells are refocused on their duty by the injury, and when they return to standby it's with a vengeance ~ and there goes your beer and pizza!
There are others with INTERMITTENT Celiac ~ you can be munching along and all at once out of the blue WHAMMO for months on end unless you change your habits. So, you cut out all the wheat gluten for several months, and it's back to normal ~ until the next time.
Again, it's all related to genes ~ you got 'em, it's got you!
Lady we met had a 20s something son with that condition and he loved to go out on Friday's to drink beer with his buddies and eat pizza. He couldn't do that but about once a month though due to the gluten intolerance problem of his leaky intestines, but he refused to listen ~ a common problem with folks with Asperberger's.
Then there's plain old ordinary grass allergy ~ and that's to the whole enchilada in many cases, including something people frequently believe is so processed there's nothing left ~ WHEAT FLOUR ~ there are plenty of peptides in there that can and do trigger inflammation ~ just give them time!