Every day news is made regarding celiac disease and its only treatment: a gluten free diet. Whether it is information about gluten free foods, recipes, scientific research, school tips, eating out, or the basics about the disease symptoms that come with having celiac, we talk about and report on it here using reliable sources and key experts to create great content.
If you have celiac disease, a non-celiac gluten sensitivity or are eating gluten free for other reasons, our one goal is to empower you with information to live a healthy gluten free life.
Meeting a group at a restaurant that may not be gluten-free friendly is tough, but you may be able to make it work. Here’s how I handled the “prep work” today before a dinner tonight…I’ll follow up with how it went.
Even knowing that infertility, osteoporosis, cancer and more can all be a result of untreated celiac disease, what causes a celiac to turn away from the very diet that could prevent all of these ailments? A disturbing “confession” about adherence to the gluten-free diet brings up this big issue that all celiacs likely think about at one time or another.
From a new celiac study to some great national exposure to celiac disease — check out these tidbits and get caught up on the latest and greatest information.
Parents of celiac kids have a challenge — it’s called snack. For soccer, volleyball, school, playdates, parties — and for many people this summer — Vacation Bible School. Gotta admit — VBS has some of the funkiest snacks around. So how do you even compete with a gluten-free version? I’ve got an idea….
School is out for the summer and that means we all get very busy and we’re not in our own kitchens very much. For us that means getting out on our boat. Here are some quick hints on snack food we like to bring along for the ride. You can use the list of foods for a day on the boat, in the car or at someone’s home for a picnic.
No matter whether you are newly diagnosed with celiac or you have a child struggling with the disease, a social network could answer many questions for you about managing the lifestyle. This post highlights some of the very active social networks where people are talking about all things gluten-free! Should you join one? This post could help you decide.
Bringing in an exchange student with celiac disease for nearly a year is a big challenge. We took that on and now it’s about to end. I have found myself asking a lot of questions about the future of my own daughter as soon-to-be teenage celiac, but also about some of the bigger food challenges for Ida while she was here.
I did a double-take when shopping today. One kind of new gluten-free Chex cereal which had been gluten-free for weeks at my store, suddenly wasn’t donning the huge gluten-free label on the front of the box any more. Was it gluten free or not? With cell phone camera in hand, I investigated right in the middle of the store.
Another Chex cereal makes it to the shelves as a newly reformulated gluten-free cereal! This time Cinnamon Chex. How did it taste?? Find out…
New research into what could cause various cancers, gives new insight into a possible way to detect celiac disease, colitis and Crohn’s disease much earlier.
