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I had lunch with a young woman who has a PhD in Nutrition yesterday.  Her
thesis was about diabetics, and how they react to their disease.  She is a
diabetic.

She said a major problem is that diabetics feel guilty for having the
disease.  They are made to feel (by the public, not their doctors, and I
guess also by themselves) that they are somehow responsible for having
become ill.  If they had eaten less sugar...if they were not gluttons...if
they had paid attention to  nutrition...if...

It has never crossed my mind to feel that way about celiac disease.
Anybody out there feel guilty???

 I am sad to say I feel some guilt about having passed the disease on to
the next generation, but that was long ago and before diagnosis.  But I
never feel any guilt about being a celiac.

GK