We talk a lot about living with diabetes around here (hey, we’re a D-blog after all!), but we’re keenly aware that other ailments affect many of our D-brethren.
This is Diabetes Blog Week and the prompt for today encourages us all to think about what it might be like living with another chronic condition… Turns out May is also Celiac Awareness Month, so it seemed like a doubly-good time to take another look at this…
From the did-you-know file: today, Sept. 13, is National Celiac Disease Awareness Day.
I have it. Or at least I’m forced to live like I do, with a severe wheat allergy that forces me to eat only gluten-free foods. Ugh! I’ve bitched about this difficult condition before: here, here, and here.
Life can be awfully tough in a world literally rolling in a staple food ingredient that makes you very sick. Recently I stumbled on…
Imagine. Imagine that you could not eating ANYTHING with wheat in it, or on it, without getting sick. ZERO regular bread, pastries, cookies or bagels. No regular pasta. Or crackers. Or cupcakes. Or breakfast cereal. Nothing breaded, even fish. Nothing made with hidden gluten, like soy sauce.
You sit down at a restaurant with friends or family and peruse the 16-page menu. You identify a couple of salads that look safe, provided the chef remembers…