Gluten Free Living

It seems that every year I learn of more people with Celiac disease also know as gluten enteropathy or gluten intolerance.  If you have difficulty tolerating gluten, you may experience chronic diarrhea, bloating in your abdomen, consistent weight loss, pain in your bones or a feeling of weakness.

A gluten-free diet is essential for people with Celiac disease, whose small intestine becomes inflamed after eating gluten containing food. It is believed that one in 133 Americans have Celiac disease.   I personally feel that the rise in occurrence of this condition is due to the repeated assault of our body's systems.  The indiscriminate use of antibiotics, the presence of hormones and pesticides in our food supply, the exposure to genetically modified foodstuffs among others.

Your doctor may suggest a gluten-free diet if you demonstrate that you have intolerance to gluten, or if your immune system reacts when you eat foods containing gluten.  A gluten free diet is not without its challenges since the major culprit is wheat products.  Wheat flour is found in the vast majority of our foods.  Read packaging labels, it is a real eye opener.

So what can you do if your doctor has told you or you just suspect that maybe you might have gluten intolerance?  This brief article gives some simple, basic suggestions to Going Gluten Free.

Until later!

For your better health,

Dr. Heller