Healthy eating = Healthy living

I think the first two years after being diagnosed with Celiac Disease should change a person's life. For life. Because it takes approximately 11 years to be diagnosed with Celiac by which time massive damage has occurred in our bodies I think a newly diagnosed person should be aware of every. single. thing. they eat.

In the last two months, I've talked with nutritionists, read books, googled, talked to other people that have CD. My book budget is almost as bloated as my new grocery budget is because I just can't get enough information. The health information from one book to the next is as different as the colors on a color wheel.

I think a lot of people, who don't have access to a nutritionist who specializes in Celiac Disease, or computer hear gluten free and do just that. They continue to eat potatoes, white rice, iceburg lettuce, corn etc. with abandon because it's gluten free.

They don't look at what they are putting in their bodies.

I read on a forum where someone had come across a sale on potatoes and purchased 200+ pounds of them and spent a week cooking and freezing mashed, twice baked, scalloped, you name it she had it in the freezer so all she had to do was thaw and reheat and she had her veggie already prepared.

OMG!

Now white potatoes do have their nutrition however once you peel, fry, cover with cheese, load with sour cream, butter, cheese, bacon bits or even chili what you have left is nutritionally lacking.

After purchasing (so far) 27 books on Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free cooking I FINALLY found THE book I have no problem recommending!

(photo courtesy of amazon)

This book is packed with nutritional advice. Pages and pages of what foods contain which vitamins, minerals, protein etc. It's hands down the #1 book for those newly diagnosed.