Gluten-Free News on Vancouver Island

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Has Celiac Disease Made You a Better Person?

Celiac disease can help us become less prejudiced against people and situations in the world around us.

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Nine Ways to Navigate Gluten-Free Dietary Success!

Gluten Free St Patricks Day Victoria

Gluten-Free Leprechauns Get Lucky on Vancouver Island

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Celiac Counsellor’s Corner – Sherry Scheideman, RCC

Want to get off the cycle of pain? The physical pain of celiac disease makes us angry, desperate, frustrated, and afraid. This emotional pain makes the physical pain worse. We’re already dealing with cramps or mouth sores or whatever it is, and then we add the extra suffering of anger or sadness or fear on […]

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Ask the Celiac Dietitian – Selena De Vries, RD

QUESTION: My 5yr old son has Celiac disease. He was diagnosed about 8mths ago, to make it easier we have made our house gluten free but the thing I am struggling with the most right now is school lunches. When we took away the gluten we took away most of his favourite foods and now […]

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Celiac Counsellor’s Corner – Sherry Scheideman, RCC

Celiac Pain: Celiac disease presents each of us with our own unique set of pains to deal with – pain such as sores in the mouth, abdominal cramps, bloating, headaches, nausea, and so on. Normally, we wish this pain would go away. We tense up against it, wishing it weren’t there. We get frustrated, angry, […]

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Take the Fight Out of Food!

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Hepatic Manifestations of Celiac Disease