Do you feel like everything on or in your body is falling apart?  Maybe it is... 

If you have celiac (also known as celiac sprue), then gluten is damaging the villi in your small intestine.  The villi are the fingerlike projections that absorb the nutrients from your food.  The less nutrients your body absorbs, the more problems your body will experience.  Makes sense, doesn't it? 

Anemia -- deficiencies in iron, folate, or B₁₂   read more »

I'm establishing two areas about food allergies for now, this one and "Food Allergy Cooking - Recipes" (so please deposit recipes in THAT area).  This is intended as a place for those of us who have found our way to learning about food allergies to talk about it.  How did we figure it out?  How do we deal with it?  And then if we have a recipe, say 'I'll put that recipe for air cake over there in the "Food Allergy Cooking - Recipes" section here at Lumigrate.com.  (Grins).     read more »

I'm establishing two areas for starters here in the Nutrition area of the Forums on Lumigrate.com.

This one is for Recipes and Cooking tips, etc.   The other is "Food Allergies - Our Experiences", which is a place for all of us to record (or others to read) how we found out about our food allergies, our processing of that, and what we've learned.  How do we cope?  What happens when we aren't coping?  Etc....  The more you contribute, the better it is for ALL!   read more »