Sep 12, 2009 10:52 AM by Jamie Smith  The truth about Gluten
Free diets  It's the new buzz word in the grocery aisles:
"Gluten free." "Sales are up double digits over a year ago, just
in gluten free type products," Gary Huddleston of Kroger Grocery
Store said.  Celebrities are touting gluten free foods for
everything from weight loss to curing attention deficit
disorder. And companies are cashing in.  Gluten free is more
than a fad diet - sales of these products are being driven by a
rapidly growing number of people diagnosed with gluten
allergies. A new study by the Mayo Clinic shows celiac disease
-- an immune system reaction to gluten -- is now four times more
common than it was 50 years ago.  "I am making what I consider a
sandwich - it's a lettuce wrap," Christi Lancaster, a celiac
disease patient, said. Lancaster was diagnosed with celiac
disease after getting so sick she lost 60 pounds and wound up in
the hospital.  Today she can't touch gluten. "Within 2 days I
start to feel a headache come on, I get