04-13-2009, 01:27 AM
Every time you're getting the lower-GI symptoms, you have consumed two things: potato and a substantial amount of fat (used to deep fry french fries, potato chips, and added to your grandmother's baked potatoes). Obviously one of these things is bothering your digestive system.
Gluten is found in lots and lots of other foods. For your symptoms to be caused by a gluten intolerance, you'd have to be equally bothered by cereal, bread, pasta, crackers, tortillas, and pretzels, plus chocolate, ice cream, gravy, beer, and most candies. If you can eat those things without symptoms, gluten isn't the problem.
People who eat very low fat diets most of the time--at 95 pounds, possibly you--are often bothered by dietary fat consumed in quantity. If you can eat all the stuff containing wheat, rye, or barley, including flour, then I'd be looking at the fats involved in the foods that make you hurry to the bathroom.
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