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Like many people with celiac disease (it's an autoimmune disease and not a wheat allergy or the same as gluten sensitivity), I spent a lot of years and money and endured many tests and misdiagnoses before doctors finally discovered that I needed to avoid gluten, a protein found in gluten containing grains including wheat, rye, and barley, that is often hidden in processed foods, and start on a gluten-free diet for life. To do this I had to learn to read food labels, and I ate mostly naturally gluten-free foods like meats, fruits, nuts, vegetables, gluten-free breads, and foods that were labeled gluten-free or made using gluten-free grains. My symptoms, which included weight loss, abdominal pain (especially in my middle-right section while sleeping), bloating, and long-term diarrhea, slowly disappeared....[READ MORE].

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