This health blog will realize two interesting journalistic articles about the well-known illness like celiaquía. In this occasion, and to begin treating this interesting sanitary topic, a brief introduction will be realized telling, in a possible clearest and simple way, what the celiaquía is and what his principal characteristics are.
However much one raises it repeatedly, really it is difficult to imagine to live without being able to consume food prepared by means of gluten, as it is the case of the bread, a food that they say cannot be missing in the hearth.
For approximately 1 % of the population of the world, this is real. This percentage of persons must be able to live together with the prohibition of consuming this type of food prepared with this ingredient for so called celiaquía to endure an illness.
What is the celaquía?
The one who suffers of celaquía, suffers from a permanent intolerance to the gluten of wheat, barley, rye and it is probable that also to the oats, there informs the web site of the Federation of Associations of Celíacos of Spain (FACE), which adds that this illness is characterized by an inflammatory reaction in the mucous membrane of the small intestine what makes difficult the absorption of macro and micronutrients.
As well he explains the web site of the Wikipedia, the gluten is a protein that is in most of the cereals. It is important to emphasize that 70 % of the foodstuff, which sell to themselves in territory of the Union Europe, is composed by gluten, he tells the web page of the Association of Coeliac of Madrid.
Analyzing this high percentage, it is deduced that only 30 % of the food is free of gluten and can be consumed by the persons who must live with this illness.
In next editions, the second and last note will be realized on this illness. If you want to know a little more about her, do not hesitate to visit www.celiacos.org, official web site of the Federation of Associations of Celíacos of Spain.
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