These are some of the many questions I am interested in exploring myself, or perhaps YOU know the answer. I encourage you to THINK and to ASK questions.

1. Why isn’t there one study in the whole country on the incidence of Celiac Disease in the Native American population? I asked this question, a search was completed that came back with no published research data and no current studies in progress. How can this be?
2. I have offered to give presentations or inservices to every physician group I know. Not one physician group has taken me up on my offer. WHY NOT?
3. How come in 2004 the NIH launched a Celiac Disease Awareness Campaign and no one heard about it? Not one healthcare professional I have spoken to knows about this campaign OR Celiac Disease.
4. Why are physicians so sure that even if they DID diagnose Celiac Disease, the diet is SO hard, no one would follow it? I have had this conversation many times, with many doctors. One even professed to have tried the diet and failed, (See ‘stupid things doctors say’).
5. Are Asian people at risk for Celiac Disease, or not?
6. If the rate of Celiac Disease in Sub-Sahara Africa is 1:65, why are we feeding the starving children wheat?
7. Is anyone going to start telling African-Americans that they have a higher risk for Celiac Disease?
8. Why are the pharmaceuticals spending MILLIONS of dollars to develop a PILL for Celiac Disease? The treatment is a diet change.
9. How DID an entire disease process, known to the rest of the world, get hidden by the United States for over 120 years?
10. Why is the media SO slow to pick up this humiliating story and give it the coverage it deserves?
11. To the doctors: How many patients in your practice have you diagnosed with Celiac Disease?
12. To the nurses: I challenge you to be patient advocates and learn the symptoms of Celiac Disease.