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The Book of
Gluten
Introduction to the Book of Gluten
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The Book of Gluten is intended to be used with the Alpha Nutrition
Program The program is
modular and versatile and can be adapted to a variety of disease
conditions where diet and nutrition play a role. This text provides background knowledge,
helpful in understanding all forms of Wheat Allergy, Celiac
Disease and the relevance of
proper diet revision.
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Who Should Read This Book 7
Introduction, Gluten Problem 8
Gluten 10
Digestion and Beyond 11
Primer on Food Allergy 14
Tolerance for Foods 15
Loss of Oral Tolerance 16
Distribution of Proteins as Antigens 17
Allergy, Name Confusion 19
Type 1 Allergy 21
Hay Fever and Allergy Ads 23
Skin Tests & Allergy Shots 23
Shrinking Definition of Allergy 24
Type 1 Food Antigens 24
Delayed Patterns of Food Allergy 27
Delayed Food Allergy Symptoms 30
Celiac Disease 32
A Prototype of Food Allergy 33
Celiac Prevalence 36
Celiac Disease, Lifelong 39
Celiac Diagnosis 39
Gluten and Immune Mediated Diseases 42
General Theory of Hypersensitivity Disease 42
Four Mechanisms of Hypersensitivity 44
Evolving Hypersensitivity 45
Gastrointestinal Allergies to Food 46
Gluten & Type III –IV Food Allergy 49
Staging Gluten Disease by Intensity 50
Level 1 Hypersensitivity 51
Level 2 Intensity 51
Level 3 Intensity 52
Continuous Immune Activity 52
Increased GIT Permeability & Systemic Disease 54
Celiac Disease Immune Mechanisms 58
Gluten Disease in Specific Tissues 60
Gluten and Lung Disease 60
Gluten and Skin disease 63
Dermatitis Herpetiformis 64
Gluten and Migraine 66
Gluten and Thyroid Disease 66
Gluten and Arthritis 67
Gluten and Liver Disease 69
Gluten and Kidney Disease 69
Gluten and Cancer 71
Lymphocytic Proliferation and Lymphoma 71
Gluten and the Brain 72
Are Emotions Symptoms? 72
Brain Disturbances 73
Gluten and Schizophrenia 74
Gluten and Cerebellar Ataxia 75
Gluten and Autism 76
Alpha Nutrition Program 81
Gluten-Free Diet 81
How Strict Should You Be? 83
The Raw and the Cooked 84
Malabsorption and Nutrient Deficiency 85
Elemental Nutrient Formulas 85
Beyond Gluten 86
What About Relatives and Friends? 87
Basic Knowledge - Digestion 89
The Reactive GIT 90
Digestion and Absorption 94
Digestive Secretions 95
Stomach Action 96
The Small Intestine 96
Gall Bladder 97
Bile 97
Pancreas 98
The Colon 99
Dietary Fiber 101
The Digestion of Protein 102
Gastric Phase 102
Intestinal Phase 103
Tolerance for Foods 104
Loss of Oral Tolerance 104
Abstracts from the Scientific Literature 106
Coeliac disease research and clinical practice 106
High prevalence of undiagnosed celiac disease 107
High prevalence of undiagnosed coeliac disease in 5280 Italian students screened
by antigliadin antibodies. 107
Gender and clinical presentation in adult celiac disease. 108
Coeliac disease in adults. 109
Coeliac disease in childhood. 110
The Celiac Disease Task Force 111
Association of Diabetes and CD in Children: 112
How many hospital visits before celiac is diagnosed? 113
Role of intestinal epithelial cells in mucosal immunity. 114
The lactulose/mannitol test 115
Non-Malignant Complications of Celiac Disease 116
Celiac disease in IgA-deficient children. 117
Is celiac disease a lifelong disorder? 119
Celiac disease is a lifelong disorder. 120
The major complications of coeliac disease. 121
Molecular mimicry 123
Epithelial cell proliferation in childhood enteropathies. 124
Reports on dietary intervention in autistic disorders. 125
Low-antigen-content diet in the treatment of patients with IgA nephropathy. 126
A comparison of diets with and without oats 127
Lymphocytic gastritis 128
Gut permeability 129
Screening for celiac disease 130
Assessing increased intestinal permeability 131
Intestinal permeability testing 132
Antigliadin IgE--indicator of wheat allergy in atopic dermatitis. 133
Lack of immunological responses to oats 135
Endomysial antibody testing underestimates 136
Testing Relatives of Celiacs 137
The effects of gluten withdrawal on bone mass 138
Zonulin, a modulator of intestinal permeability 139
Wheat gliadin peptides causing cell death 140
Severe osteopenia in symptom-free adults with a childhood diagnosis of coeliac
disease 141
Absence of Toxicity of Oats in Dermatitis Herpetiformis 143
Screening for Celiac Disease is Advisable in Children with Type 1 Diabetes 144
Celiac disease as a cause of chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and deep
dyspareunia. 145
The …pathogenesis of gluten ataxia 146
immunochromatographic assay… screening of coeliac disease. 147
Celiac disease in severe liver disease 148
Celiac disease in Brazilian adults. 149
Intestinal permeation and gastrointestinal disease. 150
Epidermal transglutaminase 151
Specificity of tissue transglutaminase explains cereal toxicity in celiac
disease. 152
Sucrose Permeability 153
The pathogenesis of dermatitis herpetiformis. 154
25 years of a gluten-free diet in dermatitis herpetiformis. 155
Elemental diet …in dermatitis herpetiformis. 156
Psoriasis patients… improved by a gluten-free diet. 157
Opioid peptides derived from wheat gluten 158
A case of cough with improvement following a gluten free diet. 158
The gluten response in children 159
Wheat starch, gliadin, and the gluten-free diet. 160
Activation of macrophages by food antigens. 161
T cells from the peripheral blood of coeliac disease 162
Alpha Nutrition Nutrient Formulas 164 |