Includes index.

[Table of contents]. I: Is the food you eat eating you? -- Normal digestion -- The digestive tract in flames: celiac disease -- How does celiac disease affect you? -- How do I know if I have it? The diagnosis of celiac disease -- Differential diagnosis: why is celiac disease underdiagnosed? -- Why do people get celiac disease? -- II : Related conditions and complications -- Neurological manifestations -- Malignancy -- Osteoporosis -- Depression -- Dermatitis herpetiformis and other skin diseases -- Diabetes -- Infertility -- Autoimmune and other related conditions -- III: Understanding and treating celiac disease: medical management -- What you need to know--and do--after diagnosis -- Why symptoms persist--I'm on the diet and not getting better -- Follow-up testing -- IV: The diet: do you eat to live or live to eat? -- What living gluten-free really means: the basics -- Reading labels -- Cooking without gluten -- Eating in the real world -- Family occasions -- The medicine cabinet and cosmetics -- Eating naked -- V: Living with -- Dealing with children and young adults who have celiac disease -- Adults: coping with change -- Research: Finding a cure -- Myths and unexplored areas.