Celiac Disease Featured in Old Media
I’ve been writing about celiac disease for a few years now and I have to say that up until recently, it was rare to find celiac being discussed in old media (newspapers and on TV). Over the past couple months that has really changed and awareness seems to really be growing. As a result, I’ve [...]
11 Year Old Works to Raise Celiac Awareness
Recently Newsweek featured a young man (11 years old) named James McConnell, who is working very hard to increase Celiac awareness in his area through an upcoming walk called Moving Feet Without Wheat. If you’d like to learn more about this young man, an interview was recently conducted by the Star Telegram with this sixth [...]
How To Recognize Celiac Disease Symptoms
Celiac Disease is more common, particularly among adults, and more easily overlooked than many clinicians appreciate, according to the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute’s Medical Position Statement on the condition. The overall prevalence of celiac disease is estimated to be 1%—comparable to that of rheumatoid arthritis. What’s more, “most cases remain undiagnosed until later in [...]
How Soon Can Celiac Disease Be Diagnosed?
Celiac Disease, by definition is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of the protein gluten, which is found in bread, pasta, cookies, pizza crust and many other foods containing wheat, barley or rye. Once a person with celiac disease eats foods containing gluten, an immune reaction occurs in the small intestine, resulting in damage to [...]
Facts & Statistics About Celiac Disease
Thanks to a heads up from Zach of Gluten Free Raleigh (via our Submit Celiac News link), it looks like he has taken the time to put together and post a great collection of Celiac statistics and/or facts about Celiac Disease. As Zach mentions in his post, you can use this information to continue to [...]
The History of Celiac Disease
Between 9,000 and 4,000 BC, in the age when glaciers melted and the earth warmed, nomadic hunter-gatherers settled down to more agrarian pursuits and began to cultivate wheat as a source of food. The establishment of this behavior, as it spread from Southeast Asia throughout Europe, is considered to have contributed greatly to mankind’s early [...]
im taeler im 17 and i have celiac disease, i've know for about a year, and am researching more about ...
I found Heartland pasta at my local WalMart and bought the fusilli. I cooked it up and combined it ...
Dr. Osborne,
Thank you for sharing that. That makes a lot of sense and explains why I can tolerate it ...
Thanks Shirley! If I go to the event, I hope to enter something with pumpkin it it...just haven't worked out ...
