If you’ve chosen to open this book and begin reading, you’ve taken the first step to a new slimmer and healthier you. So let’s start at the beginning. What is a gluten free diet?

A gluten free diet is a diet which contains foods that lack the protein gluten. This protein gluten is found in barley, malts, wheat and rye. In most cases it is as a thickening agent or as dextrin. This diet is the only diet that is proven medically to help in treating the Celiac disease commonly referred to as the wheat allergy. Eating of this diet helps in controlling the signs and symptoms of the disease.