The Gluten-free diet is no joke. Especially not to someone who has been diagnosed with Celiac disease. A diagnosis comes with a steep learning curve, where individuals are left scrambling to quickly learn as much as they can about food items that surround them—items they likely previously took for granted. Suddenly, all your usual …
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Affordable Gluten-free Recipes Searching for affordable gluten-free recipes can be challenging. Gluten-free food is expensive, and research tells us that the gluten-free diet impacts households differently. On the surface, it feels like gluten-free cooking should be easy—after all, it’s about avoiding, or eliminating, certain ingredients. And yet, there is nothing simple about managing a …
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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Natalie Diane Riediger, University of Manitoba and Anne Katherine Anderson Waugh, University of Manitoba There are many reasons why someone would follow a gluten-free diet. People who have a gluten-related disorder such as the autoimmune condition celiac disease, …
There are physical, emotional, and financial implications to going gluten-free. While a diagnosis of Celiac disease, followed by strict adherence to the gluten-free diet, aims to improve physical health, gluten-free living comes with some hidden (and some not-so-hidden) costs. There is a significant financial cost to managing and maintaining a strict gluten-free diet; the gluten-free …
Organizations supporting celiacs have come together to run an awareness campaign aimed at highlighting the realities of the disease—they want to show that celiac disease is not pretend, and that anyone claiming to suffer from the illness is not faking it. The campaign hopes to #ShineALight on celiac disease. But are people really faking …
Why gluten and the gluten-free diet? If you have heard of gluten and the gluten-free diet before, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. It’s usually used in reference to things to avoid. Gluten has a seemingly growing reputation as “dietary boogeyman du jour” (NPR, 2015). But what exactly is gluten, …
