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So here's what I thought. Overall, it averages out to 3 stars. Let's remember that this woman isn't a doctor, a nutritionist, or frankly anyone with even five seconds of experience working in healthcare, so she isn't entirely accurate in her use of terms like "allergy." But she is doing an OK job making celiac disease accessible to folks who maybe received a diagnosis but an inadequate education from their provider.

Her horrific personality has gifted her with many sneaky ways to avoid gluten, like swapping plates at a meal, and forcing other people to eat your glutened food. Seriously, I was impressed to find that she's really good at this. I thought the only things she could do were reproduce and spew homophobia, but it turns out she's good at one other thing.

Now the part that is irritating is that she tries (and frankly fails) at spinning a GF diet into the new diet craze. Sure, some people (myself included) lose weight when they go GF, but most celiacs are so malnourished from years of malabsorption that they GAIN weight upon going GF. Sure, I'm a huge advocate of GF, it's made my life better, and I probably wouldn't go back to eating gluten even if I could. But good luck selling that to most people who have functional digestive systems.

Good for newbie celiacs and partners/families of celiacs, but if you've been living GF for a while, none of this is news.]]>