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About 1 % of the world population suffers from celiac disease. But the saddest thing is that only 5 % of celiac patients have been diagnosed.

Many people suffer from this disease with out knowing and at the end of their lives they die from tumors, cancer or other similar diseases caused by the simple fact of not been following a gluten-free diet.

Recent studies show that every 15 years is doubling the number of people affected by celiac disease. It has even come to speak of "epidemiological explosion" . These studies were performed with stored blood samples from the 50´s and 70´s respectively.

Studies also demonstrate that the loss of tolerance to gluten can happen at any time of your life. This may be because nowadays people consume more grains that are richer in gluten than in the past decades and this acts as a trigger for the disease.

According to Celiac Disease DNA tests, this disease is most common in Caucasian and people from Europe. In the United States, the prevalence is 1 in 100 to 150 people. Moreover the prevalence of Celiac Disease in children's whose age are from 2 to 25 years old in Europe and the United States is approximately 1 in 80 to 300. But also woman seem to have a higher incidence of Celiac Disease than men.

So that is why research need to continue. The more investigation it is made the less people will suffer.

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Mobile applications for their enjoyment

Thanks to the efforts of the Celiac Disease Foundation everyday a new restaurant, bar or grocery store knows what is this kind of disease.

People who need gluten-free diet can now eat in more places rather than staying at home. Could you imagine being able to do what many of your friends have being doing for ages? Being able to go to an Italian restaurant and order pasta o pizza without gluten? Or finding a bakery with thousands of options that knows about that diet? It is amazing how the world has changed for people with this illness in so little time.

Moreover many mobile applications related to gluten can be nowadays downloaded freely. Some of them come in handy many times like:

• ·      Gluten Free (Shopping): Simply by scanning the barcode of a product the app allows you to know the product information and what it contains.
• ·      Gluten Free Fast Food: This app lets you find out gluten-free fast food in popular restaurants
• ·      Gluten Free Recipes by Top Chefs: This app will show you how to make incredible gluten-free meals.
• ·      Gluten Free Restaurants Cards: An application, which allows people with Coeliac/Celiac disease to more easily dine out.
• ·      GlutenfreeRoads.com: This application locates restaurants and places, which serve gluten-free diet around the world with GPS technology.
• ·      Gluten Free News: Know how important is to keep track of the latest gluten free news.

Everyday new finding s are making possible making this disease easier to live with. So that is why is so important for research´s to continue. 

The Celiac Disease Foundation helps thousand of people around the world, and now is time to help them. 

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Getting to know the disease

Coeliac disease or Celiac disease is and autoimmune disorder of the small intestine.  It is caused by an allergic reaction to gliadin which is a prolamin (gluten protein) found in the wheat and other similar proteins.

The symptoms of this disease are variable and that is why in many cases it is difficult to know whether you are suffering from celiac or not. Some of them are:

• ·      Abdominal pain
• ·      Changes on appetite
• ·      Diarrhea
• ·      Lactose intolerance
• ·      Vomiting and nausea
• ·      Unexplained weight changes 

Celiac disease cannot be cured. Symptoms can disappear if a gluten-free diet is followed, and also would improve the quality of the intestine.  However not following this kind of diet will decrease your quality of life and will cause irreversible damages like:

• ·      Autoimmune disorders
• ·      Bones diseases like osteoporosis , kyphoscoliosis  and fractures
• ·      Intestinal cancer
• ·      Anemia
• ·      Infertility

The problem about this illness is that many people that suffer from it don´t even realize they have till is too late for them and it has caused so many damages in their bodies.

We need to encourage people to get to know this illness. There are restaurants that don´t even know what gluten-free diet means, or where they might have an idea about what is it and might probably serve products with gluten unintentionally. So that’s why we also need to encourage people to donate and support the Celiac Disease Foundation.

Your donation would help others through advocacy, education and advancing research.

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