[Age of Reason]

Is that the wheat allergy thing?

If so, that's only part of it.

The starch in bread turns to sugar in your mouth while forming a sticky nutrient paste on your teeth, making a perfect home for the bacteria that rot your teeth.

I would not be surprised to learn that the occurrance of cavies in mankind skyrocketed with the farming of wheat and the baking of bread.

I suspect bread may also contribute to diabetes.

And then there's the digestion problems you mentioned.

I know of one fellow who had chronic diarrhea his whole adult life, which no doctor was able to help him cure . . . until he discovered, on his own, that eating wheat was causing it all along.

[TC Rider]

FWIW, in recent years (I'm now 51), I've suffered nightly from acid reflux, gas, indigestion, etc. I was taking tums and Pepcid AC regularly.

Since going on Atkins, all symptoms have vanished.

(This is purely anecdotal evidence of something, results may vary.)