Science Fair Project Proves Celiac More Prevalent in Society !

This link was sent in by Indy a regular visitor here. It is a very interesting article. The person featured is a very enterprising child, who working on a science project, discovered the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention state one out of 133 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Celiac disease, may not be correct. Two things come to mind, this girl should go far in life, and are there far more people suffering from celiac disease than the medics realise ?

Eddie

One out of 133 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Celiac disease.
It’s a statistic that 3^rd grader Grace Rennard wanted to prove for her science fair project, but found in her research that celiac is more prevalent in society than what the CDC reports. Grace was diagnosed with Celiac disease when she was just four years old and has been living with it ever since. “I can’t eat things that other people eat,” said Rennard

Celiac disease is a condition in which people are intolerant to a protein called gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye. “My brother, he eats Goldfish, but I’m not allowed to have that so I eat other things like fruits and vegetables,” Rennard said.

When it came to Rennard’s science fair project, she wanted to prove the CDC's report that one out of 133 people are diagnosed with Celiac disease.
“So we were thinking about ideas and we thought about this hypothesis, so we tried to do it and some people said we wouldn’t be able to do it alone,” said Rennard. 

She started with the help of My Health Clinic in Anchorage, where 133 celiac tests were given free of charge for Grace’s project.
“Grace and her mother called me seeing if I would be willing to be her medical sponsor for her grade school science fair project,” said nurse practitioner Jyll Green of My Health Clinic. “We said, 'Sure, we’d love to help.'”
When the test results came back, it showed that Celiac disease is more prevalent in society than one out of 133 people in the U.S. diagnosed.
“Four out of the 133 people did have Celiac disease and two were border line,” said Rennard.

More on this story including a short video here.