Celiac.com 05/15/2010 - Willem-Karel Dicke was born in 1905, in Dordrecht, Holland, and died Utrecht in 1962.  Dicke was a Dutch pediatrician, the first clinician to develop the gluten-free diet, and to prove that certain types of flour cause relapses in celiac disease patients.
From 1922 until 1929, Dicke studied medicine in Leiden.  He then specialized in pediatrics in Juliana Children’s Hospital in The Hague from 1929 until 1933.  In 1936, at just 31 years of age, he was named medical director of the hospital. 
In the 1940s and 1950s he went on to formally establish the gluten-free diet, forever changing treatment methods and clinical outcomes of children suffering from celiac disease.  By 1952, Dicke recognized that the disease is caused by the ingestion of wheat protei...

Celiac.com 03/27/2019 - For several decades starting in the 1920s, bananas came to be seen as a miracle food. Bananas were thought by many doctors to possess tremendous healing properties, and came to play a role in numerous health and dietary treatments. The banana diet even became a treatment for celiac disease. In 1924, Dr. Sidney Haas began to advocate the benefits of a the high-calorie, banana-based diet that excluded starches, but included bananas, milk, cottage cheese, meat and vegetables.
The diet was initially so effective in celiac disease patients that it was adopted by numerous doctors, and endorsed in the 1930s by the University of Maryland, according to pediatric gastroenterologist Alessio Fasano, chair of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a specialist in celiac ...

Celiac.com 04/25/2019 - Part of our modern human DNA contains genetic material from a number of what scientists call 'admixture' events, or, more simply, mingling of DNA from Neanderthals that of different populations. Approximately 2–4% of genetic material in human populations outside Africa comes originally from Neanderthals who interbred with anatomically modern humans. 
Researchers have hypothesized that the first such events likely occurred in Western Asia shortly after humans migrated out of Africa. However, previous studies show lower Neanderthal introgression rates in some Western Asian populations compared with other Eurasian populations. 
A team of researchers recently set out to better understand the genome-wide and phenotypic impact of Neanderthal introgression in the...

Celiac.com 06/13/2024 - Clinically speaking, celiac disease is a chronic gluten-sensitive immune-mediated disorder that primarily affects the small intestinal mucosa. Celiac disease arises in individuals with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DQ2 and/or DQ8 alleles; after they consume gluten, such persons can experience a host of deleterious clinical symptoms, from the gastrointestinal to the neurologic.
Despite having been first identified in ancient Greece, much of what we know about celiac disease comes from the past few decades, when a dogged group of epidemiologists and researchers began tracing its millennia-old path around the globe. This presentation charts their hard work and how a once obscure but increasingly prevalent disease improbably birthed the biggest diet trend going...