Imagine having a disease with no cure. For a person with Celiac Disease, living gluten-free is not a cure, but only a treatment to an improved health and well-being. Not eating gluten does not cure the disease, it just stops the symptoms. A cure would let people with Celiac eat gluten again without getting symptoms. However, Celiac Disease is a lifelong autoimmune disorder in which the small intestine is hypersensitive to gluten, leading to difficulty in digesting food. Even though the labeling of gluten free is expensive, companies are now price gouging those with Celiac because of the high demands for their products due to the lack of available treatments, it is a disability, the difference in the prices of gluten versus non-gluten are astronomically higher causing people with Celiac to spend more money on their yearly food budget.
What is it about gluten that causes so many people to double over in pain? Humans have been eating wheat for at least ten thousand years. For people with Celiac Disease, the slightest …show more content…
The question has been, are companies price gouging gluten free products due to those with Celiac, which use their products as a treatment? According to Jefferson Adams, freelance writer living in San Francisco, “The study found that people who cut gluten from their diet pay double or triple for gluten-free versions of ordinary food.” Those with Celiac Disease and other people who have, for reasons unknown, chose they like a gluten free diet will effectively pay whatever the sticker price says. Celiac are compelled to shop in the "gluten-free sections" which have smaller sizes, and half the product in bags and boxes and double the price, contrasted with the wheat loaded counterparts in the rest of the
What is it about gluten that causes so many people to double over in pain? Humans have been eating wheat for at least ten thousand years. For people with Celiac Disease, the slightest …show more content…
The question has been, are companies price gouging gluten free products due to those with Celiac, which use their products as a treatment? According to Jefferson Adams, freelance writer living in San Francisco, “The study found that people who cut gluten from their diet pay double or triple for gluten-free versions of ordinary food.” Those with Celiac Disease and other people who have, for reasons unknown, chose they like a gluten free diet will effectively pay whatever the sticker price says. Celiac are compelled to shop in the "gluten-free sections" which have smaller sizes, and half the product in bags and boxes and double the price, contrasted with the wheat loaded counterparts in the rest of the