The Celiac disease is a permanent intolerance to the gluten, a protein that is on the wheat, the barley, the rye, the oats and the triticale (an hybrid of wheat and rye, as well as on the foods elaborated from they flour, that are a lot. In celiacs, the consumption of this protein produces serious injuries in the downiness of the small intestine, that have the function to take the nutrients from the food ( minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins and fats) and give to the organism. As these downiness of the small intestine are injure then is not possible to take correctly those nutrients, causing to the person malnutrition. The intolerance to the gluten have the next symptoms: continuous diarrhoea, vomits, swollen belly and iron and calcium lack. The children present appetite and weight lack, growth delay and character disturbance, becoming unsociable and irritable. The only way to confirm that really these symptoms are causes by the gluten consumption is make an intestinal biopsy. By means of this proof is possible to check if the downiness of the small intestine are injure. The celiac disease or its symptoms disappear when the sick person begins a diet free of this protein, that has to continue during all his life. The difficulty is to avoid the gluten contained in numerous products. In spite of there is not epidemic studies is estimated that about the one percent of the babies can suffer the disease. The FACE calculate that about the 80% of the manufactured food that actually are selling in the Spanish supermarkets contain or can contain gluten.


The Areté Restaurant, that born with the idea to show that is possible make a model restaurant industry, that respect to the person and the environment, and in our compromise to the health, in the beginning of our career we had put in progress initiatives to aim the life of the celiac collectivity, showing symbols in our menu so the person that have this disease can eat without riks for his heathl. We are very interested to improve the quality of life of this collectivity, this compromise not only included the food if not the process too.