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!
didnt say it starts when you are born, something triggered the effect in my uncle when he was in his late 40s and my cousin when he was in his 20s. No surgeries for my cousin, dont know about my uncle since we dont talk about colonoscopies and such in our family.
I would say that the bulk of the people coming in and demanding we sell gluten-free options are women in their 30s and 40s. I have no problem with people going gluten-free as a “healthy lifestyle” choice, which lowering your processed food consumption must be. I just laugh at the people who are 100pnds overweight and buying 5 boxes of our gluten-free brownie mix while slurping a chilled latte from Starbucks.
I understand that it is a disease and quite a serious one at that. The fact that I almost lost an uncle to it raises my hackles when it is the new scapegoat for people who are unwilling to admit that they may be at fault for their personal obesity problems.