Celiac.com 03/28/2018 - Compliance with a gluten-free diet is difficult at all ages, but particularly for teenagers due to social, cultural, economic, and practical pressures. 
A team of researchers recently set out to assess the rates and determining factors of non-adherence to a gluten-free diet, along with the nutritional status of children and adolescents with celiac disease in a tertiary Brazilian referral center.
The research team included Maraci Rodrigues, Glauce Hiromi Yonaminez, and Carla Aline Satiro. They are variously affiliated with the Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (SMUSP), Av. Dr Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 255, 05403-000, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Department of Pediatric, Instituto da Criança,...

Celiac.com 10/17/2018 - In the interviews I conducted last year, the Celiac.com viewers shared with me some disturbing stories about how others either sabotaged their gluten-free diet or how their gluten-free requirements are continually scrutinized and doubted. Here are a few examples:
A co-worker at my office ate a gluten-containing burrito and thought it would be funny to cross-contaminate my work space.  With his gluten-coated hands, he touched my phone, desk, pencils, pens, etc. while I was not at my desk.  I came back and was contaminated.  I had to take several days off of work from being so sick. The waiter at a restaurant where I was eating dinner asked me if I was really “a celiac” or if I was avoiding gluten as a “fad dieter.” He told me the food was gluten-fre...

Celiac.com 10/23/2018 - As if being on a gluten-free diet for medical reasons weren’t hard enough already, with it’s numerous logistical and social challenges, now comes a new study that spells out the thoughts of the general public about gluten-free dieters, and the picture it paints isn’t pretty.
Nearly half of people who responded to a recent survey said that they would judge someone on a gluten-free diet as "selfish, demanding and difficult to please." Another 44 percent say that people who eat a gluten-free diet are "high maintenance," while more than 30 percent call gluten-free eaters "selfish" and 14 percent presume they must be "arrogant." When it comes to questions of dating, More than 40 percent of those surveyed would be reluctant to date someone who was gluten-free, while...

Celiac.com 02/01/2019 - When I was first diagnosed, I couldn’t believe the “rhetoric” about how sensitive a person with celiac disease is. It just didn’t resonate. I remember being told at a support group by a woman I deemed at the time to be histrionic, that a plastic strainer previously used to drain gluten-containing pasta could cross contaminate me, and that microscopic crumbs on the counter could be deadly. It just seemed to me at the time that she was “over reacting.” I thought: “Nobody could be that sensitive!” Back then I continued to bake gluten-containing goods for my husband. (That was torture by the way, to make my favorite brownies for him and not eat any of the batter.)
I made him gluten-containing bread in my bread machine. I continued to have the terrible rashes. Noticin...