‘My wife has just been diagnosed with coeliac disease.  I do most of the cooking for the household.   How can I make sure she’s getting what she needs now she’s gluten-free without making everything boring?’ Kath Fouhy, Coeliac New Zealand chairwoman (2018) and Senior Performance Nutritionist for High Performance Sport New Zealand, answers: Although the […]

As someone who has been a diagnosed Coeliac for well over 15 years, and travelled to many countries in that time, there is still always the element of the unknown when travelling overseas, and Rarotonga was no exception. I contacted Coeliac NZ prior to leaving and there was nothing recent on file in regards to […]

Does having coeliac disease affect a woman’s fertility? The scientific research on coeliac disease and fertility is quite inconsistent. Some studies report that coeliac disease can cause infertility and have an unfavourable impact on pregnancy outcomes, but other studies say that coeliac disease does not markedly affect these things.1-8 And of course, the impact of […]