[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.

[hunter112]

That does seem to be true. However, the golden age of Islam was between the 7th and the 11th centuries, and they didn't have potatoes, but they did have gluten-rich grains. That was while Europe was mucking about in its own dung, relatively speaking.

I also look to the advanced civilizations of the Greeks and the Romans, which were based on gluten-rich grains, and berift of potatoes.

I'm not familiar with lists of gluten-intolerant famous and/or prominent individuals, perhaps you have a source you can direct me to.

[TruthSetsUFree]

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

I'd be really interested in seeing a list of these.

One of the arguments some have against gluten being so "evil" is that the Bible refers so often to the "bread of life" and to wheat and barley quite frequently. I'm curious what your take is on that.

One of my answers to such an argument is that wheat has been hybridized over the years to have more gluten than it did in its original form, thus causing so many health problems, and that our American diet contains far more gluten than the Israelites' diet did.