“According to the National Institutes of Health, celiac disease [allergy to gluten] is the most under diagnosed disease in the United States. For years, medical schools taught erroneously that celiac disease was a childhood disorder, as rare as 1 in 5,000 people. A prominent doctor in Seattle told me, after my diagnosis, that he spent five minutes learning about celiac disease in medical school. According to various sources, now it is understood that 1 out of 100 Americans suffer from celiac disease. That means 2 million people in the United States should be living gluten-free. Only 3 percent of us have been diagnosed – that means millions of people floundering in pain and discomfort for decades without knowing why. That number is changing, however, as awareness of the disease grows exponentially. Eighty thousand new celiac patients are being diagnosed every month worldwide.”
Shauna James Ahern, Gluten-Free Girl
I am currently reading this book and eating this bread I baked yesterday.
