Celiac.com 01/22/2020 - School projects are as time-honored as school itself. It's not hard to imagine Picasso's children coming home with cubist macaroni portraits of their dad, or Napoleon's progeny crafting cute paper mâché rescue boats. 
But what to do when your child has celiac disease or some other gluten sensitivity, and those seemingly harmless school projects include direct contact with gluten or wheat flour? Should you worry? Do you need to supply or advocate gluten-free alternatives?
Certainly going the extra mile to ensure your kid has gluten-free alternatives is an option. You can always bring this to the attention of teachers and administrators and push for gluten-free alternatives. But what if you can't or that's just not an option? What then?  Well, hopefully thi...

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 04/18/2023 - The collective wisdom is that people with celiac disease should avoid eating French fries cooked in fryers shared with wheat products. But what's the real story? Is there any science to back up the idea? It turns out, there is. A research team recently assessed gluten levels in French fries that were free of gluten-containing ingredients, but were cooked in shared fryers with wheat-containing foods. Here's the rundown.
To do so, researchers bought 20 orders of fries from 10 different restaurants and tested them for gluten levels using two different ELISA tests. All the restaurants confirmed that their fryers were used to cook both gluten-free and wheat-containing foods.
Study Results Showed Gluten Contamination is Common when Gluten-Free Foods are ...

Celiac.com 11/16/2024 - The wedding of Blake and Bryce Shoemaker started as a picturesque day filled with love, joy, and excitement. The couple, celebrating their October 2022 nuptials in Joshua Tree, California, planned for an intimate ceremony with close family and friends. However, their magical night took a sharp turn when Bryce, who has celiac disease, accidentally consumed gluten, leaving him sick for much of their wedding night. Blake, now able to laugh about the incident, reflects on what happened and how it strengthened their bond as a couple.
The Importance of Gluten-Free Choices
Planning a wedding in Joshua Tree presented logistical challenges, especially when it came to ensuring that the cake was safe for Bryce, who has celiac disease. Celiac disease is an autoimmune...