health Celiac disease impacts 3.3 million people - are you one of them? his past May was Celiac Disease Awareness Month, a time to increase awareness of the digestive and autoimmune disease that affects an estimated one in every 133 Americans. The disease is also known as gluten-sensitive 29 GRAND Summer 2022 T enteropathy, celiac sprue, or non-tropical sprue. In healthy individuals, the immune system protects against outside invaders such as toxins, bacteria, viruses, and fungi. People with celiac disease have immune systems that do not function properly. When they eat gluten, their autoimmune system attacks the intestine's lining, causing inflammation in the intestines and damaging the structures that allow the absorption of nutrients. Continued on next pagehttps://www.facebook.com/GRANDmagazine https://twitter.com/grandmmagazine?lang=en