#never get takeout with friends ever again in exchange for very slightly lower cancer risk! so worth it!

[consolecadet]

A few months ago, I commented on someone's video about celiac safety preferences that I sometimes eat Lucky Charms and Cheerios even though they optically sort their oats, a controversial method for ensuring that grains are gluten free. A random person left a comment that basically boiled down to "Since gluten exposure increases cancer risk for celiacs, you are basically asking to get cancer, idiot."

I didn't answer, because they were obviously upset and I didn't think we were going to have a conversation either of us felt good about. But I just remembered it recently and I'm like........lots of things increase your cancer risk. Unless you're going to yell at me for occasionally eating a hot dog (meat cured with nitrates also slightly increases colorectal cancer risk) or sometimes going outside without sunscreen on, it's silly to chastise me for occasionally eating a food that the FDA allows General Mills to label as gluten free. I can't imagine how this person would talk to a smoker.