Claire Jeffers’s Reviews > The First Year: Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed > Status Update

This is stressing me out, I'm at a higher risk for cancer.

"Celiac disease is not a food allergy/intolerance but an autoimmune disorder whereby the body inappropriately absorbs and attacks the food protein gliadin found in gluten, causing serious damage to the upper intestinal tract of a person afflicted with the disease and initiating a negative physiological chain reaction."