Celiac.com 12/08/2016 - People with celiac disease are supposed to follow a strict lifelong gluten-free diet. Celiac patients should receive regular follow-up dietary interviews and blood tests to make sure that they are successfully following the diet.
However, none of these methods offer an accurate measure of dietary compliance. The only way to know for sure, is to test. A team of researchers recently set out to evaluate the measurement of gluten immunogenic peptides (GIP) in stools as a marker of gluten-free diet adherence in celiac patients and compare it with traditional methods of gluten-free diet monitoring.
The team conducted a prospective, nonrandomized, multi-center study including 188 celiac patients on gluten-free diet and 84 healthy controls. Subjects were given a dietary...

Celiac.com 04/20/2017 - More people than ever are following a gluten-free diet, but does the diet carry health risks that could cause harm in the long run? That's a very possible scenario, according to a report published in the journal Epidemiology.
The report presents strong data to suggest that numerous gluten-free food staples contain high levels of toxic metals, which means that many gluten-free eaters could face higher risks for cancer and other chronic illnesses.
Moreover, the US studies both reveal that people who follow a gluten-free diet have twice as much arsenic in their urine as those who eat a non-gluten-free diet. They also have 70 per cent more mercury in their blood, along with high levels of other toxic metals, such as lead and cadmium. Clearly the report...

Celiac.com 04/19/2019 - Once you’re diagnosed with celiac disease, it takes just that first trip to the grocery store to get sticker shock from the prices of gluten-free products versus their wheat counterparts.  Consuming food is a necessity but paying a lot of money for that food isn’t.  Food is one of the few monthly expenses where you have 100% control over both selection and the amount of money to be spent. The good news is that there are all kinds of ways to save on your grocery bill.
Planning is a vital step
Take inventory of what you have on hand and think of ways to use up these foods, especially the perishable ones, in the meals you plan for the next week.  Four percent of fresh produce bought by U.S. households is thrown out each year because it was hidden or for...

Celiac.com 02/21/2020 - It seems fiber is important, especially for those suffering from celiac disease. Who knew? A study published in the March 2018 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology determined that increased fiber intake helped with ongoing celiac symptoms among sero-negative patients, and those with healed small intestine mucosa.
The study looked at 47 confirmed celiac disease patients, of which 22 were not suffering from ongoing celiac symptoms, while 25 had ongoing symptoms. Both groups had healed intestinal mucosa and negative blood tests for celiac disease. They also tested a whole bunch of other technical biomarkers such as "CD3 + and γδ + intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs), CD25 + and FOXP3 + regulatory T cells, and CD117 + mast cells, and the expression of tight junct...