More Black Americans Avoiding Gluten

The reason for the situation in the African-American Community is that most of us were misdiagnosed as having IBS which was coined by Doctors as "non-white celiac disease" as well as Food Intolerance and Hives or Eczema along with Hemorrhoids, Diverticulitis or Diverticulosis instead of being diagnosed with IBD such as Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis before 2009. The diagnosis of Celiac and IBD was common in the African-American Community if you're light-skinned! After 2009, some doctors began to diagnose medium and dark skinned person as having Celiac and IBD! The reason for the jump is correlated conditions such as pre-type 1 diabetes and GYN issues like not having a period for 3 months along with better training to get everyone testes regardless of race or skin complexion in African-Americans! While a small portion are still clinging to old attitudes by not giving the proper diagnoses in spite of what the blood test reveals and not ordering follow up tests like Colonoscopy and Endoscopy; but a prescription for Probiotics for we can't (in their opinion) afford gluten-free products and better of preparing to take a turn for the worst by eventually getting and dying of Colon Cancer! Colon Cancer rates are higher in the community due to these biased ways of thinking!

This is considered a stigma in the African-American Community for your excluded from joining a church and/or get put out of your church (excommunicated) someone in the church notifies the pastor of this fact or asking for a gluten-free Wafer to have during Communion by telling you to practice African-America Spirituality aka Afrocentric Voodoo if you insist on being a Christian—go Presbyterian or Episcopal (aka Anglican)! On top of things being excluded from going to a Soup Kitchen/Food Pantry because the pastor doesn't want to pay the local Food Bank Distributors $40 for the Specialty Food Items for you to pick up at the church by telling you to go down to the Food Bank Distributors directly with a Doctor's note and original documents (Birth Certificate; Social Security Card; Drivers or Non-Driver's License and/or Passport) and Credit or Debit Card to pay $40 to have the stuff shipped directly to your home! The food is usually given past the expiration date! Another option if the pastor puts food in your home, you've got to host the pastor's family as well as family members of various ministries in your home for 3 nights in a row in exchange for the fresh Specialty Food Items from Costco's! These are the options in the African-American Community!

I forgot to add, that since the availability of gluten-free items being sold in grocery stores since 2010 or 2011 has skyrocketed because of the gluten-free Craze; African-American can shop in their local grocery store instead of traveling to a ritzy neighborhood to buy gluten-free products but if you're on a fix income like SSI, SSD, or PA this could easily eat up your money in no time! Even though the some company such as Betty Crocker and Barilla Pasta have made gluten-free versions alongside the wheat version that's sold in local grocery stores, the gluten-free option still costs more them the wheat based one but not organic!