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petzipillingo - The High Price of Living with Celiac Disease or Gluten Free in NY Times.
The article depicts how in Britian - you get prescription for gluten-free foods and health insurance pays for it and in Italy - the same thing, you get a stipend. In fact, I found out recently from a random shopper at a grocery store, that in Australia and in England, every grocery store product stated whether it was gluten-free or not.
The US? Not so much. It's better than it used to be. But Europe and other countries took celiac disease seriously long before the US did.
I can't get a tax rebate, because to get one - you have to prove you are celiac. I can prove I'm gluten resistent but not celiac. Since my test came back negative for celiac, but positive for gluten resistent. The difference is one just makes you have the runs, feel tired, severe IBS, while the other can kill you.
petzipillingo - The High Price of Living with Celiac Disease or Gluten Free in NY Times.The article depicts how in Britian - you get prescription for gluten-free foods and health insurance pays for it and in Italy - the same thing, you get a stipend. In fact, I found out recently from a random shopper at a grocery store, that in Australia and in England, every grocery store product stated whether it was gluten-free or not.
The US? Not so much. It's better than it used to be. But Europe and other countries took celiac disease seriously long before the US did.
I can't get a tax rebate, because to get one - you have to prove you are celiac. I can prove I'm gluten resistent but not celiac. Since my test came back negative for celiac, but positive for gluten resistent. The difference is one just makes you have the runs, feel tired, severe IBS, while the other can kill you.