[hunter112]

And of all the civilizations that you mention, which ones have made the most progress? The ones based on gluten-free diets, or the ones based on gluten-laden diets?

The potato co-existed with the gluten-laden diet, so bringing that up is meaningless in this discussion, although I will concede that rice and corn were the staple foods of people in the Far East and the Americas, respectively.

[bmwcyle]

ping

[muawiyah]

You also have to concede that the great advances in science, industry and economic well-being in Western Civilization happened coincident with the use of the potato.

Further, Many, if not most of the greatest minds in the West were, as is easily seen in retrospect, gluten intolerant.