Gluten Free restaurants - west side of lake

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Originally Posted by jkjoshuatree

What’s a gluten-free diet good for?

There are only two established medical reasons to avoid gluten: celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis, a very itchy chronic skin rash of bumps and blisters, frequently linked to celiac. In celiac disease, complete removal of gluten from the diet is necessary for life, and results in complete resolution of symptoms. Non-adherence to a gluten-free diet can have dire consequences (even if the person is asymptomatic), including poor growth, infertility, osteoporosis, anemia, bowel narrowing and bowel cancer.

A gluten free diet is now touted for many other conditions, from autism to attention-deficit disorder, irritated bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis and now even weight loss.

Although there are anecdotal stories about gluten-free diets making a difference for these conditions, there's really no good evidence to support such advice.

If your wife does NOT have celiac disease, there isn't any reason she should be on a gluten free diet.

You would be 100% wrong. You can have a wheat allergy and NOT have Celiac Disease. Ask me how I know? I've had enough endoscopies to pay for my GI docs three kids in IVY league schools.

This is from someone with a background in healthcare and has trained for several Ironman races where nutrition is as important as the physical training.
I can't eat wheat and I don't have Celiac disease.

I'd recommend you read this and consider editing your post:
http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/wh...gyVsAutoim.htm