Gluten/Wheat Free Diet
El Peto offers gluten/wheat free Celiac recipes, helpful in treating gluten/wheat intolerance in children and adults. Both children and adults benefit from a gluten/wheat free diet.
A gluten-free/wheat-free diet means avoiding all foods that contain wheat (including spelt, triticale, and kamut), rye, barley, and oats--in other words, most grain, pasta, cereal, and many processed foods. Despite these restrictions, people with Celiac disease can eat a well-balanced diet with a variety of foods, including bread and pasta. For example, instead of wheat flour, people can use potato, rice, soy, or bean flour. Or, they can buy gluten-free bread, pasta, and other products from special food companies.
Plain meat, fish, rice, fruits, and vegetables do not contain gluten, so people with Celiac disease can eat as much of these foods as they like. The gluten-free diet is complicated. It requires a completely new approach to eating that affects a person's entire life. People with Celiac disease have to be extremely careful about what they buy for lunch at school or work, eat at cocktail parties, or grab from the refrigerator for a midnight snack. Eating out can be a challenge as the person with celiac disease learns to scrutinize the menu for foods with gluten and question the waiter or chef about possible hidden sources of gluten. However, with practice, screening for gluten becomes second nature and people learn to recognize which foods are safe and which are off limits.
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Gluten/Wheat Free Diet