HEALTH
July 7, 2008 | By Janet Cromley, Times Staff Writer
Anyone who ate gluten-free food five or 10 years ago might understandably opt to avoid such food forever after. In the old days, "we used to joke that when you got the food, you didn't know if you were supposed to eat the box or the contents," says Dr. Alessio Fasano, medical director of the Center for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland.