Rice noodles, buckwheat bread and cornmeal biscuits - have you noticed that the supermarket shelves with gluten-free food are getting bigger and bigger? Is this a fad or is gluten intolerance or the chronic intestinal disease celiac disease something like a new civilization disease? “No!” says Almuthe Christine Hauer, a specialist in pediatrics and youth medicine. "But there may be more communication and more diagnosis than there used to be," she admits.

What exactly is celiac disease and what is currently being researched in this context is what this podcast episode is about: https://www.acv.at/de/podcast/glutenunvertraeglichkeit-mode-oder-neue-zivilisationskrankheit