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Article: Health: I just can't eat that stuff Many people are changing diets in a belief that they have a food intolerance. But, Roger Dobson asks, is the diagnosis the real problem?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2001
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When man first settled down and began to grow cereals 10,000 or so
years ago, it was a key moment in the beginnings of civilisation. It
heralded the arrival of settlements, long-term planning, teamwork,
domesticity, and an all-year supply of food. But it gave birth to
something else too. The wheat that they grew for the first time sowed
the seeds for what some would say is one of the biggest epidemics the
world has seen, food intolerance.
According to some estimates, one in five people, perhaps even half
the population, suffer with some kind of intolerance to foods as
diverse as cheese, coffee, bread, milk, and yeast as well as wheat.
Food intolerance is linked to conditions as varied as ...