Celiac.com 10/29/2025 – Welcome to your ultimate beginner’s guide to celiac disease and gluten-free living. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or just exploring the gluten-free lifestyle, this guide will help you get started with confidence.
Eating gluten-free can dramatically improve your health if you have celiac disease or gluten intolerance. However, it’s important not to begin a gluten-free diet without medical supervision. Always consult with a qualified doctor or nutritionist before making major dietary changes—they can help ensure a safe, balanced transition.
If you suspect gluten intolerance or celiac disease, get tested before removing gluten from your diet. Once you start eating gluten-free, tests for celiac disease may no longer be accurate.
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Celiac.com 03/06/2020 - Celiac disease has an incidence of about 1% in the general population. It is an automimmune disease triggered by a proline-rich protein, gliadin, when it enters the small intestine and leaks into the wall of the small intestine (therefore the name leaky gut). Humans cannot break down proline-rich proteins. In healthy persons, gliadin passes through the gastrointestinal tract and is excreted in stool and urine without consequences. Celiac patients, build antibodies in the small intestine and these antibodies travel through the blood stream in all areas of the body. In some patients, there are no apparent symptoms or they can be very mild, while in others the symptoms are quite severe and are even associated with an increased risk of a certain type of intestinal cancer....

Celiac.com 12/31/2021 - Having your children help out in the kitchen has many benefits. They will learn far more about cooking through hands-on experience than by watching Mommy or Daddy prepare everything. It will nurture their learning about the gluten-free diet and they will take a more active roll in watching what ingredients are used. It provides excellent bonding time and, as they get older, it will free the parent(s) from some of the kitchen duties. While parents concentrate on when and where to eat, kids usually decide how much and whether to eat! One of the best perks of having your kids help in the kitchen is that they are more likely to eat the things that they prepare for themselves!
Since each child is different, it is important for parents to consider the developmental...