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Article: Waiter, Please Hold The Wheat.(Health For Life)(Celiac disease)
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- Newsweek
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- September 17, 2007
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Byline: Anne Underwood
Symptoms can be baffling at first. But once doctors diagnose celiac disease, patients can take advantage of a growing array of healthy foods.
In 1988, Alice Bast came home from a vacation in Cancun with what seemed like a classic case of Montezuma's revenge, but with one crucial difference. It didn't go away. As days of illness turned into months and years, her weight dropped from 130 pounds to 110. Her hair fell out in clumps when she brushed it. Her teeth began chipping, and she suffered severe fatigue, migraines, depression and tingling in her fingers and toes. "I thought I was dying of cancer," she says. But the worst moment ...