Odds are you know at least one person with Celiac Disease who manages it by eating a gluten-free diet. Yesterday I stumbled upon this story about how kids with Celiac used to be put on a (temporary) banana diet. Why? Because someone made a connection between farmers eating a banana-rich diet not having the problem / people not eating bananas having the problem. It's a pretty quick read and super interesting:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/24/529527564/doctors-once-thought-bananas-cured-celiac-disease-it-saved-kids-lives-at-a-cost
tl;dr? Folks felt better after eating the banana diet because they weren't eating wheat (gluten), and so bananas were hailed as the cure. They weren't, of course, but they probably saved some lives.
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