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Celiac Disease Diet

Celiac disease is a sickness that causes your body to be unable to absorb the gluten found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. Gluten acts like a poison to people with celiac disease, because it damages their intestines. This damage usually causes diarrhea and keeps your body from being able to use many important nutrients from the foods you eat, including vitamins, calcium, protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Without these nutrients, every organ in your body can become deprived of nourishment.  

The good news is that you can control celiac disease very easily by avoiding foods that contain gluten. By following a gluten-free diet, you can help your body to repair the damage to your intestines and live a normal, healthy life.

Remember that you will have to follow the gluten-free diet every day for the rest of your life. Eating small amounts of gluten, even if you don’t have any symptoms, can do further damage to your body.

If you are having diarrhea and/or other stomach problems caused by celiac disease, the following tips might be helpful for you:
  • Decrease your intake of high fat foods such as fried foods and snacks.
  • Eat fewer dairy products, such as milk, yogurt, and cheese. Many people with celiac disease also have trouble digesting lactose, a sugar found in dairy products. These products can be added back into your diet slowly, as your stomach discomfort gets better.
  • Discuss with your doctor the idea of taking a multivitamin to replace some nutrients that may have been lost through diarrhea.

    The following table will help you to choose gluten-free foods:

Gluten-Free Diet Recommendations

 

Choose these foods/beverages

 

AVOID these foods/beverages

 

Breads/Cereals

 

Breads and rolls made from arrowroot, carob, corn, pea, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, or tapioca starch or flour; pure corn tortillas, cornmeal, hominy, grits, popcorn; potatoes, potato chips; enriched rice, rice noodles, wild rice, rice cakes, rice wafers, puffed rice, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, Kellogg’s Sugar Pops, Post’s Fruity and Chocolate Pebbles cream of rice.

 

Breads and rolls made from wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, durum, or graham; commercial mixes for biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, waffles; wheat germ; bran; bulgar; millet, triticale; crackers; pretzels; millet; melba toast; matzo; bread crumbs; pastry; pizza dough; regular noodles, spaghetti, macaroni, and other pasta; dumplings; cereals containing malt or malt flavoring derived from barley; cereals containing wheat, rye, oats, barley, bran, buckwheat or bulgar.

 

Fruits/Vegetables

 

All plain, fresh, frozen, canned or dried fruit; fruit juices; fresh frozen or canned vegetables; white and sweet potatoes; yams.

 

Any thickened or prepared fruits; any creamed or breaded vegetables; commercially prepared vegetables with cream sauce or cheese sauce.

 

Meats/ meatless protein

 

All fresh meat, poultry, fish, and shellfish; dried peas and beans; nuts; peanut butter; soy protein meat substitutes (without fillers); tofu.

 

Breaded fish or meats such as meatloaf, meat patties, croquettes, swiss steak; Any meat prepared with wheat, rye, oats, barley, or gluten stabilizers such as frankfurters, cold cuts, sandwich spreads, sausages, and canned meats.

 

Dairy

 

Whole, 2%, skim, dry, evaporated, or condensed milk; yogurt (except with cereal flavor); cream; American cheese, and all aged cheeses such as Cheddar, Swiss, and Parmesan.

 

Commercial chocolate milk and drinks; malted milk; non dairy creamers; cereal beverages such as Postum and Ovaltine; processed cheese foods and spreads.

 

Fats and oils

 

 

Butter, margarine, vegetable oils; homemade salad dressings.

 

Commercial salad dressings, and mayonnaise; gravy and cream sauces thickened with flour.

 

Sweets

 

Brown and white sugar; gelatin; jelly, jam, honey, molasses; fruit ice.

 

Prepared cake and cookie mixes; donuts and pastries; ice cream (with gluten stabilizers); ice cream cones; pies; bread puddings; pudding thickened with flour.

 

Beverages

 

Pure coffee; tea; carbonated beverages (except root beer); fruit drinks; mineral and carbonated waters; unfortified wines and rums, saki; vermouth; cognac.

 

Instant coffee; beverage mixes; nutritional supplements; alcoholic beverages made from cereal grains such as gin, whiskey, vodka; sherry, fortified wine, beer, ale, and malt liquor.

 

Condiments

 

Salt; pepper; herbs and spices; pure cocoa; food coloring; food flavoring extracts; monosodium glutamate.

 

Any condiment prepared with wheat, rye, oats, or barley such as some catsup, chili sauce, soy sauce, mustard, bottled meat sauces, horseradish, some dry seasoning mixes, pickles, steak sauce, distilled white vinegar; soup broth and bullion.

 

Grains are used in processing many foods, so read labels carefully. The following tips will help you to find "hidden gluten" on food labels.


Avoiding “Hidden” Gluten

Ingredient

 

Permitted

 

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) or Texturized Vegetable Protein

 

Only those from soy or corn.

 

Flour or cereal products

 

Those from rice, corn potato or soy.

 

Vegetable protein

 

Soy or corn.

 

Malt or Malt flavoring

 

Those derived from corn.

 

Starch

 

Cornstarch only.

 

Modified Starch or Modified Food Starch

 

Arrowroot, corn, potato, tapioca, maize.

 

Vegetable Gum

 

Carob or locust bean; cellulose or sugar gum; gum acacia, arabic tragacanth or xanthan.

 

Soy Sauce, Soy Sauce Solids

 

Those without wheat.

 

Sample Menu: Gluten-Free Diet

Breakfast

 

Lunch

 

Dinner

 

Snack

 

6oz apple juice

 

1 c puffed rice cereal

 

8 oz 1% milk

 

1 slice gluten-free bread, toasted

 

1 tsp margarine

 

1 tbsp jelly

 

1 cup coffee

 

1 oz cream

 

2 tsp sugar

 

2 oz roasted turkey breast

 

2 slices gluten-free bread

 

lettuce wedge

 

2 tomato slices

 

1 medium apple

 

½ cup carrot sticks

 

&Mac189; cup bell pepper slices

 

8 oz 1% milk

 

3 oz broiled pork chop

 

1 cup wild rice

 

&Mac189; cup boiled asparagus

 

&Mac189; cup fruited gelatin

 

1 slice gluten-free bread

 

1 tsp margarine

 

12 oz iced tea

 

2 tsp sugar

 

6 cups low-fat microwave popcorn

 

12 oz mineral water

 

This sample menu provides the following:
Calories: 2013
Fat: 64 grams
Protein: 80 grams
Sodium: 1273 mg
Carbohydrate: 286 grams
Potassium: 2779 mg



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