Study Shows Reasons for Success or Failure in Gluten-Free Diet

I also think that another hard thing to deal with is finding out you have celiac later on in life as opposed to when you are younger. When you are older and find out, you know what 'real' food taste like and also how good some of those foods taste. I personally struggle, as well as a few other people I know who have celiac, with the urge to eat your favorite foods that just don't taste the same gluten free or that you can't get gluten free. I still have yet to come to terms that those 'real' foods are completely off limits to me. It makes it even harder when I do stray that sometimes those foods do not make me sick physically, although deep down I know they are doing horrible things to my insides.

I don't believe celiacs deliberately cheat. Apart from cross-contamination issues, the key to truly staying gluten free is education about the disease and knowing what products to avoid(the list is diverse with gluten hiding in products you wouldn't expect) . Reading the ingredients on products sometimes is a nightmare with having to remember what additives to avoid etc. Following a gluten free diet is easier if no processed food is consumed, but how much fresh food can one person take without being tempted by a different sensation of chewing a different food group.

In this globalized world of mass marketing, where products are mass produced and mass processed, with smaller specialty shops struggling against the collective power of chain restaurants, chain supermarkets, the cross-contamination issue will always exist. Gluten-free labeling is only as good as the monitoring process over that labeling. At best, gluten-free labeling and ingredient listings improve your odds of not getting sick....at best.

I feel researchers and others go round and round on the same topics and don't get anywhere. Celiacs are not eating better than they did before diagnosis.

Please do a study about celiacs who consume no grains. Look at other aspects of their health and diet to understand the benefits of a no grain diet. It is my contention that many celiacs do poorly because they concentrate on replacing lost foods with other grains instead of consuming more vegetables and fruit that have more nutrients than the grains. When I found out my celiac status my body was so run down and had so many deficiencies that I could not rely on substituting grains to bring up nutrition levels, not to mention the calories they have.