Gluten-free diet

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…

Gluten Free Diet – A Sign of Things to Come The gluten free diet is here to stay. Consumers want more product labeling, new products, and are willing to pay the price. Going gluten free is growing in popularity and will continue to grow. The gluten free diet is also drawing more attention due to how our food is being processed. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has certified labels everywhere advertising, gluten free. What is gluten? According to livescience.com, “Gluten refers to the…

Gluten is a universal name for the proteins found in wheat, rye, barley, and triticale that help the food maintain its shape. In certain cases people are diagnosed with celiac disease, a condition in which the body attacks the small intestine after consuming such products which leads to damage to the villi. Diagnosing this disease requires taking a blood test and in some cases an intestinal biopsy. Gluten intolerance can be confused for celiac disease due to the same symptoms; however, there is…

Introduction: Gluten is one of the most extensively consumed proteins in the world. Almost twenty million people state that they commonly experience problems after eating products that contain gluten and a third of American adults say that they are trying to eliminate gluten from their diets. Not only can gluten affect adults, but it can also have just as much of an effect on children as well. Celiac disease is defined as a disease in which the small intestine is hypersensitive to gluten,…

digestive disease that damages the villi in the small intestine and can interfere with the nutrition absorption of food. This essentially means every time a person with this disease consumes the protein gluten, the body attacks itself. Gluten is primarily found in wheat, barley, and rye. Ingestion of gluten causes the immune system to produce a chemical response as it would to a poison. The villi of the small intestine are damaged. After they are damaged, they are unable to absorb nutrients,…

when gluten is removed from the diet. However, they do not test positive for celiac disease. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by a reaction to gliadin; a gluten protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and sometimes oats. The history of why and when wheat and thus gluten has changed, affecting our bodies differently, can be traced back to a man by the name of Norman Borlaug. Borlaug had good intentions to help feed the world. He genetically modified the wheat crop to produce high…

Gluten free diets are becoming popular among adults lately because they believe it is beneficial to their health, however it is medically necessary by some because of Celiac’s disease. Celiac’s disease is a condition that creates inflammation in the small intestine, and damages the lining. This prevents necessary components of nutrition from being absorbed. The damage to the lining of the intestine comes from a reaction to eating gluten. The cause of celiac disease is unknown. However,…

one friend who has told them, "I'm going gluten-free." The food industry has jumped into the craze, earning an estimated $23 billion in sales of gluten-free products per year. While many claim that avoiding gluten is the latest diet fad, for the millions of people in the United States who have celiac disease, eating gluten can cause them hours of misery. Celiac disease is an autimmune disorder that causes an abnormal response when gluten is eaten. Gluten is a protein that is found in barley,…

than ever before. When one consumes food containing the protein gluten, the small intestine reacts by preventing vitamins and minerals to absorb. Gluten peptides are perceived as foreigners by antibodies within the body. Therefore, these antibodies treat them as a threat, and begin to destroy the intestinal wall called the epithelium and beyond the small intestine. Resolving the problem essentially requires a strict gluten-free diet which should end all symptoms and restore the ruined tissue…

She points out that everybody suffering with celiac or even gluten insensitivity wants a quick fix because gluten can be so hard on ones' body. Stewart reminds Colleen that medically speaking there is no definitive answer on when she will feel better but sticking to a strict gluten free diet will help somewhat in the beginning but will get better and better as time goes by (Stewart, 2011). After a few weeks of the gluten free diet Jenny felt good enough to start running again. She continued…