My Personal Diet Story

Gluten Free Foods and Diets

Many people in the world suffer from what is known as Coeliac Disease. A disease which is looked at closely. Sufferers have to endure a gluten free diet but sometimes that is hard to do especially when they dine in restaruants or dine with friends. There maybe no way of telling how much gluten is in the meal they are about to enjoy. Today on ABC News Online and other news programs information in regards to a study and testing of a treatment were disclosed…

I listened to the news and even though this will not stop people from having to have a gluten free diet it will make it easier for them when they dine out and not the gluten levels in the food they are eating…. Read on…

 

* * * * * * * * * *New coeliac disease treatment easy to digest…There is new hope for people who suffer from the debilitating stomach condition, coeliac disease. 

The disease affects people who lack the enzymes to digest gluten, which is a substance found in most cereals.

Now Australian doctors have developed a substitute for the missing enzymes to offer sufferers relief and a broader diet.

Patients with coeliac disease suffer cramps and fatigue.

If untreated, it can lead to more serious illnesses such as anaemia and osteoporosis.

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have developed a treatment that restores the gluten-processing enzymes, ending a very long wait for patients.

“This use of enzymes is quite a breakthrough because patients have only had use of a gluten-free diet for the last 50 years,” biochemist and Professor Hugh Cornell, from RMIT, said.

Jennifer Angwin took part in the first trial of the supplement at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

She took the pills just before eating foods high in gluten and found the reaction was reduced.

“To have the opportunity to take the capsules and know the likelihood of an attack is far diminished would be wonderful,” Ms Angwin said.

The new treatment is not designed to replace a gluten-free diet.

But researchers say it could be used as a safeguard when patients do not know what is in the food they are eating.

“This supplement would be used, for example, where patients are eating out in restaurants or [with] friends and they weren’t confident about the level of gluten exclusion by the cook in those settings,” Dr Finlay Macrae, head of the colorectal department of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, said.

After the success of the first trial, the treatment will be tested on a bigger group of volunteers.

Doctors hope it will be available at the end of next year.

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