Celiac disease brings food, lifestyle changes

To say "From this moment on, you can't eat pasta, pizza, bagels, cookies, cakes, beer." is very misleading and discouraging for those diagnosed with Celiac -- and not a great way to end this otherwise informative article. You neglected to mention that there is now a plethora of gluten-free products in stores, restaurants that offer gluten-free menus, and countless gluten-free recipes on the internet. I have Celiac disease -- and I can tell you I have eaten EACH of those "forbidden items" you mentioned just this week. If you tell THAT to people who are diagnosed, NOT "which other disease would you rather have." sufferers will have a much greater success rate at going gluten-free.

It is a very nice information.

Good article. I do always find the "Celiac is better than other things" kind of annoying. But then I have Celiac and Cancer, which blows. I understand the point, you just give up some food.

Oh well. It won't make a difference for me as I'll probably go to jail for shooting the guy how offers me cake or a donut every morning... "Hey dude, you want some of these cookies?"

Just read the other comments.

I do agree with Marni, I've been loving pizza, cookies, and lots of other things I can buy, or make myself that are gluten free.

But it does really suck socially, as sometimes you feel you are always being a "burden" on your freinds/family.

Very good article. I wish all celiacs and their family members could read this.

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Very good article, there is a restaurant in Manhattan that sells Gluten free pizza by the way.

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Hey. That was an interesting article. I don't have Celiac disease, but I've been reading a lot about it recently. I also had some gluten-free dinner rolls that were fantastic! If I hadn't known before that they were gluten-free, I wouldn't have guessed it. I got them from an online store called Discovered In Oregon. They have some other stuff I haven't tried, but they look good.

This article was very informative. I was diagnosed with celiac disease six years ago, after a long struggle to find out why I was seriously anemic. This is the first time I have heard celiac disease categorized as an autoimmune disease (various types are prevalent in my family). My own doctor never explained this to me.
Thank you for enlightening me on a topic that is important to my long-term health and my daily activities.

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I have pulmonary hypertension secondary to scleroderma. there is so much autoimmune disease in our family that I decided to research and see if i could come up with anything. to explain. I read a book titled "the Gluten Connection" which was a rebal eyeopener. One thing it said is that you can be gluten intolerant but never get to the point of being diagnoised with celiac disease. The gluten is destroying the villi--thye may be inflammed or partially atrophied but not to the point that the antibodies are leaking into the blood stream. However the antibodies are in the intestines and would show up in the stool. After my blood antibodies came back that they were present but not to the level of calling it cleiac disease my doctor agreed to order the antibody stool test and the gene test. Casein test was also done as casein is structurally very similar to gluten. Not to my surprise was I had boot genes that predispose one to cleiac disease and the levels of the three antibodies was high even after being gluten free for 2 months prior to the test. It makes perfect sense to me. Also cameback cseinintolerant. I am hoping that bygoing gluten free that I can reverse the scleroderma and maybe even the PH. Please give me your take on thses comments. My PCP said he had people he was sure had celiac disease, he would put them on gluten free diet, symptoms would improve but the blood antibodies did not confirm celiac disease. this helps to explain.
Please give me yor take on my comments.

This is a good introductory article with no new info (by the time anything gets to the local paper those really involved in the matter have known about "it" for quite a good while), but serves as a good review and good place to ascertain you're up-to-date on the various aspects of 'celiac', all of which are readily available on the various gluten centers' web sites today.(The author's original article may have been over-edited, too.)

With regard to NC Cindy's remarks, there is no doubt that autoimmune diseases are inter-related and share not only characteristics but, I believe, certain triggers.(I'm an anesthesiologist, not a rheumatologist....but I've studied these illnesses for decades--Dad had serious Celiac all his life, I've got an odd variant and relatives are popping up with atypical forms of the disease).

Insulin (my opinion/observation) seems to be a common factor in the process--and this supports the notion that certain carbohydrates (grains) got into our modern* diets before our caveman DNA was ready for 'em.(*third world countries without modern diets have a much lower incidence of these illnesses). I know that does not explain why so many humans do not have autoimmune or celiac symptoms, but I'm certain that the incidence is much greater than reported secondary to partial expression and failure to diagnose.

Absolutely minimize your carbohydrate load to minimize your symptoms. Read, learn and study the disease and what's in food as much as you can. I am amazed at the amount of "crud" in the US food supply. And also note that most celiac centers don't have food scientists working with them ( a food scientist is different from a nutritionist)--you'll have to become one yourself to make informed decisions about your diet. Get a copy of "The Asthma and Allergy Cure" by Fred Pescatore (2003). Good info!

With regard to other comments: Where's the Manhattan restaurant selling gluten-free pizza?

Alliance Ohio also has GF Pizza at Pizanellos and Canton Ohio has it at Capones

Having been diagnosed with Celiac Disease in my 50's, I've found it fairly easy to deal with. There are gluten free pastas that are readily available, great breads at Whole Foods, substituting corn starch for flour works in most recipes that call for just a little flour, and by cooking at home, you really can't tell the difference between regular and gluten free food. Eating out, however, is not as easy. But, once you find a gf-friendly restaurant, they go out of their way to accommodate your needs. Even gf beer is really good - sometimes better than regular! I guess what I'm trying to say here is that CD isn't as bad as you think it might be. Good luck!

I have been diagnosed with IBS. I had an upper and lower GI done twice. The second time, there was a trace of celiac disease, but my doctor said not enough to diagnose me with it and diagnosed me with IBS. At the same time, I began to have thyroid problems and had blood work done which showed that I tested 1/2 positive for celiac disease. Nothing else is being done and I still have my "IBS symptoms". What else can be done?

Who are celebs with coeliac disease? Except Joe C and Richard Gannon's daughter? Please help!

tests. i had iron deficiency anemia in 2003. at that time i had a bleeding ulcer. i have the anemia again and had the colon looked at 1/03. well right now i am waiting on the results of biopsies that were taken and also a blood test.
in 2003 i had a bleeding ulcer. this time my gastrointerologist didn't find that. so hence the blood test. i have been reading about celiac disease and frankly have no other symptoms other than the anemia.
so here i am waiting. i decided to start researching. any comments would be appreciated.