SARATOGA SPRINGS – Sandy Moody struggled with the meaning of the words behind
the diagnosis.
“I was expecting maybe my head was going to fall off or something,” she said,
looking outside her living room window at the bare tree line that leads to the
Adirondack Mountains.
“When they told me: You have celiac disease, I said, What the heck is that?’ ”
Moody has spent the past 10 months learning about the digestive disease that
damages the small intestine. It knows no cure.
The only treatment for the disease is a gluten-free diet that eliminates the
protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley. More than 2 million Americans or
about 1 in 133 individuals have celiac disease, according to U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Not everyone knows that they have it.
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