About Mrs. P
In 2005 I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. It was a life changing diagnosis, to say the least. I loved food, I loved baked goods, and I apparently LOVED gluten! To give you some perspective, my husband affectionately called me the “carbohydrate queen”! Needless to say, this diagnosis caused me more than a little heartache and sadness. When I would talk about the disease and my strict gluten free diet to others, they would say, “…..but they make gluten free products, don’t they?!” I do not hold that against them, after all they had never had to eat a gluten free cookie, or perhaps more accurately a dry, crumbly, tasteless disc of compressed sand being passed off as a cookie. I then embarked on a quest to find delicious gluten free baked goods and then lowered my standards in search of decent gluten free baked goods. So sad! I was unsuccessful in my search and after my daughter was born and there was a chance that she would also have the disease, I decided to take matters into my own hands, determined that she would be able to enjoy the taste of a delicious (“normal”) 1st birthday cupcake. I would use the love and knowledge of baking that my Maw Maw had already instilled in me to make DELICIOUS gluten free bakery. I hope when you taste my bakery, you are taken back to the food you once loved and you no longer feel like you have to miss out!
About Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease is an inherited autoimmune disease that affects the digestive process of the small intestine. It is triggered by the consumption of gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. It causes an abnormal response to gluten ingestion in which the immune system attacks the small intestine, inhibiting the absorption of important nutrients and destroying the intestinal villi and wreaking havoc on the bodies systems.
Celiac Disease is not a food allergy and therefore, it is not possible to grow out of it as is the case with some food allergies. The only treatment for Celiac Disease is a strict gluten free diet. Unfortunately, nearly 3 million people in the United States (1 out of 133) have Celiac Disease and 97% of people with Celiac Disease have not been diagnosed. Undiagnosed patients are at a greater risk of other serious illnesses.
For more information on Celiac Disease, visit:
www.CeliacMadeSimple.com
www.celiac.org
www.celiacdisease.net
Who can benefit from a Gluten Free Diet
Celiac Disease sufferers are not the only ones who can benefit from a gluten free diet. People with the following conditions may also benefit considerably from a gluten-free diet:
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Neuromyelitis (inflammation of the nervous system)
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Seizures
- Autism
- Ataxia (loss of balance)
- Late-onset Friedreich ataxia
- Down’s syndrome
- Cognitive problems (brain fog)
- Osteoporosis
- Type 2 and Type 1 diabetes
- Anemia
