What Condition or Disease is it when a Person can not eat Starch?!


Question: What Condition or Disease is it when a Person can not eat Starch?
and what happens if they do eat startch?

Answers:

Celiac Disease

What is it?

Having celiac disease means a person can’t eat gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, or barley. Gluten may also be found in some medicines. Celiac disease is hereditary, meaning it runs in families. The treatment for celiac disease is a gluten-free diet. Other names for celiac disease are celiac sprue and gluten intolerance.

In people with celiac disease, the body’s immune system responds to gluten by damaging the lining of the small intestine. This lining has small finger-like growths called villi. The villi normally absorb nutrients from the foods we eat. When the villi are damaged, the body can’t get the nutrients it needs.

People with celiac disease don’t always know they have it because they don’t feel sick. Or if they feel sick, they don’t know celiac disease is the cause.


Foods To Avoid
Wheat

* Including einkorn, emmer, spelt, kamut
* Wheat starch, wheat bran, wheat germ, cracked wheat, hydrolyzed wheat protein

Barley
Rye
Triticale (a cross between wheat and rye)

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac_ez/




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