A gluten-free diet is a must for people with celiac disease or an allergy to products containing wheat. It's not so easy being gluten free. Not only is gluten found in grains like wheat, barley, and rye, it's also added to many foods as a thickening agent. For example, some ice creams and even ketchup contain gluten.

The latest issue of Women's Health gives us a list of some of the tastiest gluten-free products on the market. Even if you don't require a gluten-free diet, give some gluten-free foods a chance. They're often made from different grains -- like quinoa -- and it's a good idea to incorporate new whole grains into your diet.

Check out the gallery for the Women's Health top gluten-free picks.

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If your kids have sensitive skin, you may want to keep many skin products out of reach. Specifically, those that contain oat products in any form. Oats are great to eat (if not refined), but are also great for their abrasive ability in skin products. That is, to all those who don't have sensitive skin or or allergies.

A new study from France showed that nearly one-third of over 300 kids had some kind of reaction to skin products that contain oats. Whether their skin was sensitive just to oats or if an oat allergy was being observed remains a little unclear.

The good news is that most commercial skin products made just for kids don't contain oats from what I have seen. Oats are generally reserved for adult skin products are a marketing tool.

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Are kids these days showing more allergies to common things like nuts, soy and wheat? It appears so, and it makes the curious want to know what happened to cause the increase.

There's a part of me that beckons this to the amount of tampering food scientists do to nature for yield results (i.e., genetically-modified organisms or GMO)while still passing the food to the consumer. By that's another day. Kids are seeing increased amounts of allergies and many scientists think it will only get worse. What to do?

Detecting the preventing allergies in kids takes vigilant effort in proactive fashion, and there are tools being developed to assist in this effort. While I'm not sure more synthetic drugs are the best answers, several methods may need developing unless kids of the future won't be able to eat any modern processed food unless it's grown in the backyard.

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