I have been eating gluten free, with a few rebellious exceptions, since I was about four years old. At that time my mother was diagnosed with celiac disease and, because of having similar symptoms myself, I was taken off of a gluten diet to see if my symptoms persisted. The link between my health and ...
My husband discovered a couple of years by accident that his fibromyalgia-like symptoms were almost completely alleviated by eating gluten-free. A gluten free diet is a lot easier to follow now than it was twenty years ago, but it can still be a daunting task to shop for tasty gluten free foods. Eventually, the benefits ...
Gluten is a nutrient that is found in wheat, oat and rye products. While for most people gluten poses no health risks, for people suffering with a condition known as Celiac disease, eating foods containing gluten can result in malnutrition and serious gastrointestinal problems. In people with Celiac disease, the immune system destroys the inner ...
If you’ve been recently diagnosed with adult onset celiac disease, you are probably feeling overwhelmed for a number of reasons including understanding just what risks celiac disease actually poses to your long-term health and learning to navigate a gluten-free diet, which can seem very restrictive, but is completely necessary to a celiac. Having recently gone ...
Celiac disease is of vital importance to many people, and some people may not even know they have it. The health problems can range from having no symptoms to extreme symptoms such as bloating, fatigue, diarrhea and weight loss. The problem is an allergy to gluten, the protein found in wheat. If you find that ...
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease is no longer a hidden problem. Just a few years ago, Americans hadn’t heard much about gluten intolerance, gluten sensitivities or celiac disease. Few doctors tested for it, and patients went undiagnosed and left in confusion and pain. My daughter was not one of those patients. Thanks to an alert ...
