Healthy Creations
Institut - Windsor

Celiac Disease is an intestinal disorder that is instituted by an allergic reaction to the ingestion of gluten. The villi is the site where our food is directly absorbed into our body. Imagine a rubber tube lined with a shag rug.that is what the villi look like. The intestine is lined with little finger like things called villi. Through the process of digestion, our food makes its way to the intestine where it will be further digested and then absorbed into the body. Common food products like bread, crackers, bagels, pasta, cakes and cookies all contain gluten. Gluten is a protein that is found in wheat, barley, oats, rye and any derivative of these grains. The villi remove the valuable parts of our food, like vitamins, minerals, protein, fat and sugar and pass them into our blood stream so that our body can use them to grow healthy, strong and active.If a person with Celiac Disease eats anything with gluten it will destroy the villi in the intestine and then the body will not be able to adequately absorb the essential nutrients.