Essays about: "celiac disease"
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6. Nutrient intake of adolescents with celiac disease and their non-celiac counterparts : A comparative study of Swedish 14-year-old boys and girls on gluten-free diet with a non-celiac, gender- and age-matched control group
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kostvetenskapAbstract : Abstract Introduction: Following a strict gluten-free diet means exclusion of many staple foods such as traditionally made bread, flour, pasta, and whole grain products that are largely included in the Swedish daily diet. Such exclusions of vital resources could have harmful consequences on nutritional status and cause nutritional hazard, if they are not substituted with appropriate alternatives. READ MORE
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7. Negotiating Bodies at the Borderlands of Eating Communities : An Ethnographic Study of Oat Milk Consumers’ Relations to Health, Identity and Social Life
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis conducts a cultural analysis of the social implications of food allergies and intolerances and analyzes the interaction of individual experience and social structures by asking what it means when one chooses not to follow the normative food culture, such as with vegetarian and vegan diets, or when one physically cannot, such as in the case of food allergies and intolerances, specifically Celiac. By focusing on lifestyle and dietary eaters, that is, consumers adhering to ʻalternativeʼ diets, such as veganism or vegetarianism, and individuals diagnosed with (or affected by) food allergies and intolerance, this research analyzes how (non)participation in the mainstream eating community is both a challenge and source of how people removed from the eating community understand themselves via social interaction. READ MORE
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8. Analysis of the expression of INSR and FOX Genes in Celiac Disease
University essay from Institutionen för vård och naturAbstract : Celiac disease (CD) is a common heritable immune related disorder where chronic inflammationof the small intestine is induced by the ingestion of gluten. The immune response leads to theinflammation and flattening of intestinal mucosa due to the damaged villi and thus results indefects in the absorption of nutrients. READ MORE
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9. Do early infectious episodes contribute to the risk of celiac disease?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Epidemiologi och folkhälsovetenskapAbstract : Background: Celiac disease, a permanent gluten sensitive enteropathy, is the most common genetic disorder, although largely underestimated public health problem worldwide. The wide spectrum of its multifaceted manifestations is a continuum representing the outcome of a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors with immunological processes suggesting its multifactorial etiopathogenesis and also involves the risk of malignancy. READ MORE
