The graphic element that identifies suitable food in our city was established over thirty years.
The day they came, not imagined that his invention would go so far. Were only twelve women and a doctor who met regularly in the Children's Hospital in our city to share the same problem. Thus arose the logo that identifies foods suitable for coeliacs with the legend "No TACC, which ensures that the product contains no wheat, oats, barley or rye, that is, all that these people do not tolerate.
These women, who with Dr. Eduardo Cueto Rua, Chief of Gastroenterology at the hospital said, formed the Mothers' Club Celiac Kids, devised the logo today, 32 years later, has conquered several neighboring countries, and is already used to in Mexico. That group was the basis on which the Association was formed Celiac Argentina, a civil non-profit pioneer in Latin America.
"One mother said she had to be the symbol of forbidden for children to recognize him. Another suggested that, behind, had ear of corn, and then thought of the century without TACC, which is now recognized across America, "he said Cueto Rúa to Today, referring at the time the logo was born.
This symbol also is the second patent in the world after one Englishman, whose use is widespread, even in our country. What happens is that, not being controlled in the domestic market, many products use it without being completely free of gluten. To make matters worse, identifies foods that have at least twenty parts per million gluten, while born in La Plata guarantee that this amount does not exceed ten parts per million, a parameter that is controlled in the Central Health Laboratory Buenos Aires, Cueto Rúa said.
However, as in Argentina are used both English and local, late Last year the National Food Commission under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Office, proposed the creation of a third logo for Celiac Association, will only confuse people, which recognizes the symbol born in the Hospital Child.
"It is nonsense to another (which, in fact, already been made and approved) with all the history that has our logo. Saves a lot of feelings, because there the past three decades and there are kids who saw celiac life. It's like trying to change the logo of Students or gymnastics because there are two opposing swollen, "said the professional.
A genetic intolerance
Celiac disease is the permanent intolerance to gluten, a set of proteins found in wheat, oats, barley and rye and derived products. Currently, the incidence is higher in women than in men.
gluten cereals listed is the most popular form of presentation of prolamins toxic to celiacs. Gliadin is the major problem, as is most often used in the food industry.
Celiac disease occurs in people with genetic predisposition to suffer. It is estimated that in Argentina, one in every hundred people could be celiac. This intolerance produces a characteristic lesion of the intestinal mucosa, causing atrophy of the villi of the small intestine, which alters or reduces the absorption of food nutrients (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins). It is this phenomenon that produces the classic picture of malabsorption food.
Source: http://www.diariohoy.net/accion-verNota-id-125722
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