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There are people quite willing to sell you gluten related products, a very few of them you may actually need or want at some point. But the best product for discovering gluten intolerance and starting and maintaining a Gluten Free Diet is right between your ears.

Learning about Gluten Intolerance has to come from your own initiative.

Investigating whether a health problem in your family may involve gluten may have to come from your own initiative. But this is really the same initiative as watching your children for strep throat and other diseases.

It is important to learn the issues surrounding tests for gluten intolerance.

If you decide on a Gluten Free Diet, hopefully with a doctor’s blessing, having good knowledge about the diet is very important if you hope to treat a health problems affected by gluten.

Here is a decent introduction to the Gluten Free Diet therapy:

Going Gluten-Free: A Primer for Clinicians

It is written for healthcare providers, but it is information meant for the patient. It is very readable and introduces many issues related to gluten intolerance and Gluten Free Diet.

Many support organizations are available – links to the web sites of a few of the are the following link:

Links to Celiac Sprue and Gluten Intolerance Associations and Support Groups

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