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 10/04/2018 - Do a reality check. Remember, this is a choice you have to commit to. If you want to feel lousy for the rest of your life and potentially get worse as time goes on, that’s your choice—but I wouldn’t recommend it for many reasons. The goal is 100 percent. Yes, it is a process, but the ultimate goal is to be 100 percent free of gluten and any other food allergens and intolerances. This is the only way your body will heal, so let’s start the healing journey! 
Did you know that, as we mentioned earlier, once the gluten intolerant body is exposed to the tiniest amount of gluten it sets off your B cells, which causes an inflammatory response that can take several months to calm down? That’s why the goal is 100 percent. For some food intolerances, such as eggs, f...

Celiac.com 03/08/2019 - How many times have you gone out to dinner and tried to find a gluten-free meal that wouldn't make you sick? How many times have you eaten that gluten-free meal, only to think, "gee, I wouldn't feed this to my dog?"
This leads to the question, do restaurants that serve gluten-free menu items taste test their offerings? If not, why not? Why do they think that people with gluten-intolerance or celiac disease want to eat cardboard? These and other questions continue to baffle me.
There are a few things that restaurants could do better. The gluten-free wave is sweeping the nation. Restaurants need to learn how to swim, or be swept away with the tide. These are some of my pet peeves when it comes to dining out gluten-free.
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Celiac.com 11/19/2022 - Gluten-free bread making the first few times is an incredibly frustrating experience that begs the question—is it really worth it? After my many trials I must say—yes it is definitely worth it! We are now able to make excellent bread that we can all enjoy. Being able to make bread allows my kids to take a sandwich to school, the fact that the bread is good (and looks good) is equally important to them. Since they cannot eat the hot lunch at school due to its “gluten in every bite” nature, it is important to have the option of sending a sandwich the children like (and will eat). Other kids taste the bread and like it, and say hey this gluten-free diet is pretty good! The benefits to these exchanges are priceless.
It took awhile to get to this point but one day...