Gluten Free Diet

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My mum has celiac disease. She only found out at the age of 50 or so and she says since cutting gluten she feels 10 years younger. She's also much shorter than everyone else in her family and I wonder if it's because her body was not properly digesting much of the food she was consuming while growing up.

I do not seem to suffer any ill effects from eating gluten (I had pasta last night) but my girlfriend has gotten into the habit of baking without gluten for my ma. She uses coconut flour, almond flour or sometimes ground up chickpeas and she makes some really excellent cookies (store bought gluten-free cookies usually suck) but wheat flour is definitely cheaper.

There's also gluten free beer . . . but all the ones I've tried have been pretty gross lol.