First it was called “wheat allergy”, then “gluten intolerance” and now it’s been given a spiffy new name, “Celiac disease”.  What is Celiac disease, you cry?  It sounds bloody horrible.  Well, it’s not actually that bad.  In the Russian roulette of diseases, winding up with Celiac disease is more of an inconvenience than a disease.  [...]

When you are gluten intolerant, you have to avoid some of the most popular grains in the Western World – wheat, rye, oats and barley.  To be allergic to wheat in America is akin to being allergic to rice in China.  However, there are gluten free grains that can often be used as substitutions for [...]

Your doctor may have prescribed a gluten and wheat free diet for you if you are unable to digest the gluten that is found in some cereal grains.  The three main reasons why your doctor would have prescribed such a diet to you are the presence of celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis or a wheat allergy.  [...]

When you think about Celiac you should know that it is an autoimmune disease that occurs in the small bowel and especially in those who have a genetic predisposition toward it, and age does not seem to make a difference on who contracts the disease which may even begin during an infancy that is in [...]

When I was England, I made friends with a social worker who had terrible irritable bowel syndrome – or so she thought.  When she was diagnosed with Celiac Disease, she thought she was handicapped for the rest of her life.  She needed to immediately go on a Celiac Diet, which meant nothing made from wheat [...]

Celiac disease is a condition in which inflammation is noticed and it happens because some people may be genetically prone to a disease known as eat wheat. According to certain figures released by The celiac disease Foundation, there is supposedly one in every one hundred thirty-three people affected by celiac disease in the United States [...]

Celiac Disease used to be called “wheat allergy” and then “gluten intolerance”.  It has been increasingly getting media coverage as more and more people are coming forward for help with their digestive troubles.  Fifty years ago, who would have thought that over three million Americans would stop being able to digest wheat?  Another reason Celiac [...]

Celiac disease or gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) affects about one in 133 people in the United States today. According to studies, celiac disease happens to five to fifteen percent of those people who have siblings and other family members who are suffering from this ailment. However, among identical twins, about seventy percent of twins suffer [...]

It is possible that your doctor may mistake your symptoms of celiac disease for anemia.  This is because food allergies do not set off alarm bells for doctors.  Instead they just think that it is something else.  Nevertheless many doctors now believe that wheat intolerance is responsible for a lot of people’s poor health.
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The last year saw some very successful gluten free foods hitting the market and there is a greater likelihood that the present year too will see them coming on strong, and in fact, companies that sold such products doubled their sales in the previous year. And, gluten free foods are now also being sold in [...]