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There’s a little buzz on Facebook and Twitter all around an article by www.healthnews.com website.
The article entitled “The Dangers of a Gluten Free Diet” tries to explain how a gluten-free diet isn’t a good idea for weight management or as a detoxifying plan as your immune system and bacterial health could be at risk.
The full article can be found here
This is my view about the article.
This is largely one person’s point of view: a hearsay comment upon another unnamed person’s opinion upon the basis of the selection of a single gluten free dish. [click to continue…]
This post was contributed by Kathleen Baker, who writes about a masters in healthcare online
Gluten sensitivity diseases are hardships which can afflict certain individuals around the world due to an underlying health condition that causes them to have adverse reactions to gluten.
While gluten is found in many products, it is important to be aware of the foods you can and cannot eat when you discover you have this type of medical condition.
If you continue to consume gluten, you can develop a myriad of diseases, even resulting in Coeliac disease (affecting the small intestine). Therefore, once you develop a lifestyle free of gluten and its adverse side effects, it will become much easier to relax when eating wheat products.
Gluten sensitivity has been found to be the cause of many illnesses relating to wheat aversions, causing scientists to question whether or not wheat is safe to eat.
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The Coeliac Society of Australia was formed to provide a forum to promote the national welfare and uniformity of purpose and objectives of the state coeliac societies throughout Australia.
They provide information and support to those diagnosed with coeliac disease and their families, sufferers of dermatitis herpetiformis and those medically diagnosed as requiring a gluten free diet.
So why did they stop listing a commercial food list? [click to continue…]
There are many good people online writing about Gluten Free and health, Coeliac and Celiac disease and symptoms related to the disease.
This is one more of my weekly posts about articles I’ve been reading and I think are worth your time to read.
Tesco asks for ideas from coeliacs |
Living gluten free? Celiac or Coeliac disease? Need to avoid gluten? Raising a gluten free child?Absolutely astonished this morning to see that one of Tesco’s buyers has posted on the gluten free message board, asking what the gluten free community would like to see in store.
http://www.free-from.com/blog/
Family focuses on gluten-free diet benefits
Hawke’s Bay Today - Hastings,New Zealand
It may be hard for most kids to imagine not having a piece of birthday cake at a friend’s party, never buying lunch from the school tuckshop and never enjoying takeaways.
But for the Wilson siblings of Taradale it’s a life they’re just learning to cope with.
For Georgia, 12, it’s especially hard as she has never had any symptoms of coeliac disease, which tests have shown she has a severe case of.
Childhood Diabetes on the Rise in Europe
Truthdig website
Auto immune diseases in general — Celiac, the colitis’s, Lupus and so on — tend to be familial, though not necessary hereditary in the strictness sense.
NICE backs serological testing for celiac disease
Healthcare Republic (press release) - London,UK
Persistent gastrointestinal symptoms and prolonged fatigue are among symptoms that should alert gp’s to a possible diagnosis of celiac disease.
Wal-Mart gets Points for Labeling Gluten-Free
By AmyLeger
If those marketers are reading this post — we celiacs would love to see more of this! I thoroughly enjoy the fact that we can have a box of augratin potatoes now! They may not be the best for us, but I haven’t purchased them in 10 years
Best Regards
Paul Smith
www.glutenfreehealth.net
There are many good people online writing about Gluten Free and health, Coeliac and Celiac disease and symptoms related to the disease.
This is one more of my weekly posts about articles I’ve been reading and I think are worth your time to read.
Tea Time for Coeliacs at Westminster « Theblackfarmer’s Blog
By theblackfarmer
As part of a wider ‘Eating Out’ campaign, which aims to improve gluten-free eating for people with coeliac disease, ‘Free for Tea?’ aims to mobilize people to raise awareness and get people talking about coeliac disease
Food to die for, not from
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,Australia
On a related matter, one of our reviewers on The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide is coeliac. It’s not an allergy, but rather an auto-immune reaction
Scoop: Gluten causes neurological disease
Gluten causes neurological disease
A long list of nerve and brain disorders has been associated with gluten sensitivity. These include: wobbly walking (cerebella ataxia), muscle weakness, slow development, learning problems, attention deficit disorder (ADD), depression, lethargy, migraine and headache. Medical research has shown that these problems can be triggered by gluten and occur in people who do not have coeliac disease
Best Regards
Paul Smith
www.glutenfreehealth.net
David began to develop tiny water blisters, which burst and left scabs.
Because he had been working long hours in a stressful job, his family doctor initially diagnosed stress related 
psoriasis.
The condition did not clear up. [click to continue…]
General Mills gets into the gluten free game
Examiner.com
When General Mills introduced gluten free Rice Chex cereal last year, you would have thought someone had invented a gluten free Krispy Kreme doughnut
Celiac Study: Non-invasive Intestinal Evaluation Shows Promise
celiac.com
To better diagnose celiac disease, assess intestinal damage, and monitor treatment over the long-term, doctors are looking to develop a whole new set of non-invasive evaluation tools. [click to continue…]
Continuing my previous post about the relation gluten - skin disease - celiac
During the year he was exchange student in Germany, Eric ate a lot of bread and pastry. Shortly after he returned to Australia, he developed a small purple blister on his right buttock. 
Within a year, the rash grew to include his other buttock and each of his knees and elbows. [click to continue…]
There are many good people online writing about Gluten Free and health, Coeliac and Celiac disease and symptoms related to the disease.
This is one more of my weekly posts about articles I’ve been reading and I think are worth your time to read.
Relaxing drugs add up to fine
Bendigo Advertiser - Bendigo,Victoria,Australia
Defence lawyer Clare Vierboom said Bryce had used cannabis to ease coeliac disease and fibromyalgia.
Loaf is sweet for city mum
Edinburgh Evening News
A gluten and wheat-free loaf is now the best-selling product in Tesco’s “free from” range.
There are about 600,000 people in Britain, including 80,000 children, who are unable to eat gluten, a condition described as coeliac.
Mother develops gluten-free bread
The Press Association
he mother of a boy who suffers painful reactions to gluten has created a new bread which could improve the lives of thousands of people, it emerged.
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne, from Edinburgh, developed the Genius loaf after struggling to find snacks that her seven-year-old son Robin could stomach.
The gluten and wheat-free bread is now the best-selling product in Tesco’s “free from” range
Will going gluten free mess up your gut bacteria?
Examiner.com
A small study from Spain (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19445821?log$=activity) shows that the gut bacteria in ten people who went gluten free for a month was not quite as healthy as before they skipped gluten there are plenty of trashers ready to use this as evidence for… for what exactly?
Best Regards
Paul Smith
GlutenFreeHealth
What is worse than an itch? 
Well, a lot of things.
But to someone who has a rash that won’t go away, an itch is unbearable, especially if it spreads and refuses to respond to ‘normal’ lotions, ointments, or even steroids.
Let’s examine gluten sensitivity and how it expresses itself in skin disorders, often masquerading as other more common autoimmune dermal problems. [click to continue…]
