The Gluten-free Diet

Treating Celiac Disease does not require any surgery, any injections or costly medications.

Adapting your diet - avoid any food containing gluten - will suffice to annihilate all risks of long term complications.

Gluten-free diet is all about adopting a new eating lifestyle. It may be stringent at the beginning, but you will rapidly find many advantages to it like:

• Treating yourself to healthier food
• Discovering the pleasure of cooking with natural ingredients
• Tasting the many different varieties of gluten-free cereals
• Initiating your family to the gluten-free lifestyle

• All dairy products
• All vegetables
• All fruits
• All meat, poultry and fish

And bear in mind that not all cereals are forbidden. Examples of cereals allowed in a gluten-free diet include:

However, keep in mind that the following cereals contain gluten, and are therefore forbidden:

• Wheat including its hybrids einkorn, emmer, spelt, kamut
• All wheat derivatives such as wheat starch, wheat bran, wheat germ, cracked wheat, hydrolyzed wheat protein
• Barley
• Rye
• Triticale (a cross between wheat and rye)
• All wheat products such as bromated flour, durum flour, enriched flour, farina, graham flour, phosphated flour, plain flour, self-rising flour, semolina, white flour

You may also find gluten in many processed foods, such as:

Usually, most of these processed foods are available gluten-free in regular or specialty shops. You must check the food labeling to ensure the consistency of your diet.