The monitoring of a gluten-free diet is something basic for people who have celiac disease or dermatitis herpetiformis (skin sensitivity induced by gluten). Can occur if people choose to follow a gluten-free diet for other reasons, although these two diseases are the only force, for medical reasons, to follow a gluten free diet.

Gluten is a mixture of proteins found in some cereals, especially in yeast. The gliadin gluten causes celiac disease.A gluten-free diet is not the same as a yeast free diet and some foods that contain gluten does not contain yeast.Despite progress in research, it is unknown exactly how and why gluten harms the gut. Currently believe that celiac disease involves an abnormal immune response and not a deficiency encimàtica, as was believed in the past.

The Vegetarian Society believes that a gluten free diet is compatible with vegetarianism. The Celiac Society and some doctors are not supporters of celiac people follow a vegetarian or vegan diet because they believe too can complicate your diet and, therefore, this diet would be very difficult to follow. While tracking a gluten free diet should be the priority of a celiac person for their own welfare and their own health, there is no nutritional or medical reasons for not being a celiac a celiac vegan or vegetarian. Read more »