Gluten Free

A Gluten Free diet brought my health back. I had suffered a long time on
and of from diarrhoea, indigestion and upset stomach and I put it all down
to nervousness and anxiety and I felt my health was not too good. My
husband was always encouraging me to go to the doctor for a check up
but I just said it is just a bit of nervousness.
 
Then one day when I happen to be at the doctors for a slight eye irritation
I thought I might as well ask about my indigestion problems. The doctor
decided to send me for a colonoscopy examination and they discovered that
I had celiac disease which means I have to have a Gluten Free and wheat
free diet, which eventually restored my health back to normal.

After I had been diagnosed with celiac disease I was told by the doctor to
go on a Gluten Free diet and ordered to write everything down I was eating
and monitor what I could eat and what didn’t agree with me. I then went on
a Gluten Free diet for a few weeks and after leaving out wheat and anything
with gluten in from my diet I began to feel that much healthier in my body    
and my health was returning again.

Here a year after I started on my Gluten Free diet I have very little trouble
with indigestion and no more upset stomach problems or bloating feeling. 
Now that I know what the problem was and watch what I’m eating I feel so
much healthier and I still stick to my Gluten Free diet and it is great to have
my health back again. It is not difficult to eat a healthy Gluten free diet it is
just about being smarter.

Now that I understand so much more about this disease I just couldn’t
continue to feed gluten to my family. I know of its toxic effect it can have on
the brain and immune system. I try to educate them to feel what their bodies
tell them when they eat certain things and the family seem quite happy to join
me in a Gluten Free diet.

Celiac disease is one of the most under-diagnosed diseases. Celiac disease
affects 1 in 100 people in Australia but 4 out of 5 people don’t know that they
have it. Celiac disease is an auto-immune disease, which means that the body
produces antibodies that attack its own tissues. For people with celiac disease,
this is triggered by gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. If it is left untreated and you don’t start on a Gluten Free diet, the possibility of severe consequences such bowel cancer and osteoporosis increases.