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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:34:57 JST goatsarah

   • Wilma 💙

   It’s meant to be funny, but the prognosis for continuing to eat gluten when you have coeliac disease is death.

   And for centuries, before the link to gluten was discovered, a coeliac diagnosis was indeed a death sentence.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 04:36:53 JST goatsarah

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     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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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 06:37:14 JST goatsarah

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     • iwein

     @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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     iwein (iwein@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 06:37:16 JST iwein

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     @goatsarah but the amount of people with such diagnose doesn't match the amount of gluten free produce sold by an order of magnitude, right? I think the joke is targeting the gluten free shopper that also has saitan in their basket. (Really happened, I was there trying to keep it together 🤣).

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 06:38:59 JST goatsarah

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     • iwein

     @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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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 19:14:11 JST goatsarah

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     • Gen X-Wing

     @breadbin The thing with coeliac is that the autoimmune target is your gut lining.

     So you die slowly of malnutrition.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Oct-2023 19:14:12 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @goatsarah Wasn’t aware of exactly how bad it can get, but anyone talking about medical issues as a “choice” can fuck right off.

     Also auto immune is really scary shit:( Few things can unravel your life and turn it into a living hell as your immune system turning on you.