CeliacSociety.com
Title
Celiac Society | Providing celiac and gluten-free foods and information for a gluten free life
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with absorption of nutrients from food. People who have celiac disease cannot tolerate a protein called gluten which is found in wheat, rye, barley (malt) and possibly oats. When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten, their immune system responds by damaging the small intestine. Specifically, tiny fingerlike protrusions, called villi, on the lining of the small intestine are lost. Nutrients from food are absorbed into the bloodstream through these villi. Without villi, a person becomes malnourished - - regardless of the quantity of food eaten.
Languages
English
Address
- 4801 N 28th St
- Tacoma WA 98407 US
