Sep 21, 2010

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Treatments For Gluten Intolerance

Treatments For Gluten Intolerance

Is There A Cure? Gluten intolerance (Coeliac's Disease) is a major cause of illness worldwide. In Australia, over 200,000 people are sufferers, with many more remaining undiagnosed. A sensitivity to gluten may also cause symptoms, and result in ill health for many more people. Currently the only effective treatment is for a sufferer to eliminate gluten from the diet. As this needs to be followed life-long, it is quite restrictive. Research into this condition is now being undertaken around the world, to understand the disease, with the aim of finding a cure. Exciting findings have recently been identified. At the Walter and Eliza ...

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Apr 16, 2010

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Gluten-Free Food That Tastes Good!

How To Have A Gluten-Free Diet Because of our dependence in the Western diet on wheat, and to a lesser extent oats, barley and rye, gluten is contained in many of the foods commonly eaten. What Ever Gluten Is It Must Be Tasty! The hard part of cutting out gluten from the diet is that the alternatives do not taste and cook the same as wheat! Some gluten-free breads leave a nasty after-taste that even toasting the bread cannot help! Reading labels must become a part of shopping! Gluten can be a hidden ingredient in many common foods. Malt, glucose, food additives, and ...

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Apr 11, 2010

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Gluten-Effects On Health

Is Gluten Making You Sick? Gluten is known as the major cause of Celiac Disease, but is less well known as an aggravator of several other allergies and diseases. You may not think of gluten as being the cause of your symptoms because only those of Coeliac's Disease are well known. The gluten-free diet "band wagon" may seem like the latest fad, but with the large majority of cases where gluten is a factor in illness remaining undiagnosed, it may well be doing more good than realized. The Role Of Gluten In Disease A protein ingredient in several grains, most notable wheat, gluten can ...

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Apr 2, 2010

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Gluten Intolerance-Coeliac Disease

Gluten is a protein found mainly in wheat, but also in barley, rye and oats. It is therefore found in a huge variety of the foods available, especially processed food. It may be a "hidden" ingredient. For example, gelatine contains gluten, and this is an ingredient in ice-cream, jellies, yoghurts and lollies. Also, "hydrolysed vegetable flavouring" is a common component of many processed foods. What Is Gluten Intolerance? Gluten-sensitive enteropathy, or coeliac disease, is a genetically transmitted auto-immune disease. It causes an immune response in the small intestine of sufferers, if they consume gluten. Gradually the small intestine is damaged more and ...

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