Article: CELIAC DISEASE TOUGH TO SPOT; SYMPTOMS AND MISERY LINKED TO MANY FOODS CONSIDERED ROUTINE IN MOST AMERICAN HOMES.(Neighbors West)

Byline: Dyana Smolen Contributing writer

Pizza. Chicken nuggets. Cookies.

Ask any group of children to list their favorite foods and these three will no doubt land in the top 10.

But for children - and adults - with celiac disease, these foods, when made with gluten, are not only forbidden but dangerous.

Celiac disease, also known as celiac sprue, is a subject the Procopio family of Onondaga Hill received a crash course in five years ago.

Ryan Procopio, now 7, was diagnosed with the condition when he was two.

"He wasn't growing," said mom Julie Procopio, a registered dietician.

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