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Understanding Food Sensitivities and Celiac Disease

Explore the various forms of food sensitivities such as intolerance and allergies, including Celiac disease, an immune disorder triggered by gluten. Learn about gluten, its effects on the body, and how a gluten-free diet is crucial for managing Celiac disease.

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Understanding Food Sensitivities and Celiac Disease

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  1. What is a food sensitivity? • A person with a food sensitivity reacts negatively to a food that others are able to consume without problem.

  2. Various Forms of Food Sensitivities: • A food intolerance is also considered a food sensitivity. This type of food sensitivity does not cause a reaction of the immune system. • Food allergies are considered food sensitivities caused by a reaction of the body's immune system to a specific protein in certain foods.

  3. What is Celiac Disease? • A person with Celiac disease has an allergy to gluten. • Celiac disease is an immune disorder characterized by an abnormal immune response to the protein gluten. Rolfes, Pinna, Whitney. Understanding Normal and Clinical Nutrition 9e. Pg. 739.

  4. What is Gluten? • Gluten is a protein complex formed from the hydration of gliadin and glutenin. • Gluten is found in wheat flours and related grains. • Gluten enables elasticity and the rising potential of wheat based dough's.

  5. Common Wheat Flours

  6. Common Non-Wheat Flours

  7. An individual with Celiac disease experiences major changes in their intestinal tissues when gluten is consumed. • These changes cause a reduction in nutrient absorption within the intestinal tract.

  8. Villi of the Small Intestine

  9. The only treatment for Celiac disease is life-long following of a gluten free diet.

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