Celiac Disease
Literature Review
Aida Vega
El Paso Community College
March 8, 2013
Aida Vega
Professor Kathleen Bombach
English 1302
March 8, 2013 Everyone that has phenylketonuria or celiac disease knows that this is something serious and it will affect them. Emily Meyers is a mother of a child with phenylketonuria; she says it was the hardest thing. Because not only does she have to give her baby a diet. She knew that if she didn’t take her of her health, her daughter could be affected with it in the future because she could be causing mental retardation. It was even harder for her because she had older children and they could eat whatever they wanted. It was hard for her to tell her daughter that she couldn’t eat ice cream like her brothers. When they would go to parties or other places, she needed to take care of the daughter and what she would eat. It was hard to tell her daughter no when she didn’t even know why her mother didn’t let her eat what she wanted to eat like all the kids. She as a mother had to tell people not to give her food because of her disease many people didn’t even know what her disease was. Knowing that her daughter is older she told her daughter that now it’s not her responsibility to keep her healthy; now it is only her responsibility to keep herself healthy and keep her diet going. There was a time when she stop doing her diet but many things happened to her and she was having a lot of health problems as soon as she started to do her diet again she felt better. Now her mother is proud because she is very motivating and driven. She knows it takes a lot for her daughter to keep a diet because she as well has tried diets for losing weight but she has failed unlike her daughter that’s why she’s impressed and a proud (Meyers, 2000).
There are many diseases we should be aware of but most important to know about them and know how they affect us. For example, celiac disease is a disease that is gluten intolerant and which means gluten is
Aida Vega
El Paso Community College
March 8, 2013
Aida Vega
Professor Kathleen Bombach
English 1302
March 8, 2013 Everyone that has phenylketonuria or celiac disease knows that this is something serious and it will affect them. Emily Meyers is a mother of a child with phenylketonuria; she says it was the hardest thing. Because not only does she have to give her baby a diet. She knew that if she didn’t take her of her health, her daughter could be affected with it in the future because she could be causing mental retardation. It was even harder for her because she had older children and they could eat whatever they wanted. It was hard for her to tell her daughter that she couldn’t eat ice cream like her brothers. When they would go to parties or other places, she needed to take care of the daughter and what she would eat. It was hard to tell her daughter no when she didn’t even know why her mother didn’t let her eat what she wanted to eat like all the kids. She as a mother had to tell people not to give her food because of her disease many people didn’t even know what her disease was. Knowing that her daughter is older she told her daughter that now it’s not her responsibility to keep her healthy; now it is only her responsibility to keep herself healthy and keep her diet going. There was a time when she stop doing her diet but many things happened to her and she was having a lot of health problems as soon as she started to do her diet again she felt better. Now her mother is proud because she is very motivating and driven. She knows it takes a lot for her daughter to keep a diet because she as well has tried diets for losing weight but she has failed unlike her daughter that’s why she’s impressed and a proud (Meyers, 2000).
There are many diseases we should be aware of but most important to know about them and know how they affect us. For example, celiac disease is a disease that is gluten intolerant and which means gluten is
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