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Sarah Brown

People think coeliac disease, or even non coeliac gluten intolerance, is like lactose intolerance: painful and annoying but ultimately a “choice”.

It isn’t. If you are sensitised to it in that way, gluten will make your immune system attack your own body. It’s not nice stuff.

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Sarah Brown

@iwein 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.

But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.

The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!

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Sarah Brown

@iwein 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.

Households contain more than one person, quite often.

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