{"id":659,"date":"2004-07-01T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=659"},"modified":"2004-07-01T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T16:47:00","slug":"celiac-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Celiac Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nAn article on Celiac Disease<\/a> has made the front page of CNN. ’bout damn time.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know, Celiac Disease<\/a> is an auto-immune deficiency where the small intestine reacts to the presence of gluten, the protein component of grains such as wheat, rye, and barley (and usually oats, due to cross-contamination). Once thought to be very rare, it is now estimated to affect 1% of the population. There are a variety of symptoms, which are detailed in the article.<\/p>\n

I’m very familiar with Celiac, as my wife (gf_guruilla<\/a>— now the name should make sense) has been dealing with it for almost 10+ years now. The way to address the disease is simple: go to a gluten free lifestyle. She’s very active in the Celiac Disease Foundation<\/a>, and is working on a gluten-free cookbook that uses healthy grains (most gluten-free cooking, such as the books by Betty Hagman, use a lot of white rice\/tapioca flour blends as substitutes, which is similar to using white flour). Hopefully, having the new machines at home should help: it should now be easy to work with her recipe database and to write the book—an Athelon running Windows XP is more friendly than a 486\/33 running Windows 3.1!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  An article on Celiac Disease has made the front page of CNN. ’bout damn time. For those who don’t know, Celiac Disease is an auto-immune deficiency where the small intestine reacts to the presence of gluten, the protein component of grains such as wheat, rye, and barley (and usually oats, due to cross-contamination). Once Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-gluten-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}