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Celiac Disease & Gluten-Free Diet Blogs

My First Entry

Ok so it has been 6 months since I SELF-DIAGNOSED....no help from my Dr...oh its just IBS. UGH! Moving on.....I have lost 50 lbs and still losing. Finding it hard to incorporate old recipes into this new life of mine. Ready for help! I baked my first cake today. I am hoping it tastes as good as it smells. Looking forward to some kind of happiness with this intolerance. Happily going shopping tomorrow for more Gluten free foods/snacks. I need to pack my lunch for work and eating the same thing ev
lthurman1979

lthurman1979

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Wyden, Leahy Letter Asks FDA For Gluten-Free Food Standards

Expected Four Years Ago, the Standards for Gluten-Free Labeling on Foods have Still Not Been Released Washington, D.C. – After more than four years of inaction by the Food and Drug Administration on their statutory requirement to finalize standards for gluten-free labeling on foods, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) have sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg seeking answers for the extreme delay and an update on when the FDA will propose a final rule
Scott Adams

Scott Adams

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The List of Ingredients People THINK Have Gluten, but Really DON’T

Learning which ingredients are gluten-free and which are not, takes some time and patience. Within the first few months you learn a lot of what you need to know to live gluten-free. But there are a few lingering ingredients that it took me a while to digest, remember and even accept they are gluten-free. Here is a quick list of items that really are gluten-free even though there might be something out there that makes you think they aren’t. Vinegar
Amy Leger

Amy Leger

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How Long To Gluten Challenge?

I know 2-3 months sounds rough. That is why I've never gone back and challenged.   You got me curious. I'm linking abstracts for you, as they're publicly available but I checked full text for two of the papers as the challenge time length wasn't in the abstract.   Here is an article showing median time to relapse in children with gluten challenge with a low amount of gluten is 13 weeks. Open Original Shared Link   This paper used three months with a standardized amount of gluten to chal
Skylark

Skylark

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Celaic And Oats

As far as oats, the scientific consensus is that while most celiacs can eat uncontaminated oats safely, a few cannot. Across studies, some people have dropped out of oat studies because they felt unwell, and one had a biopsy-proven reaction. There are also immunological measures that suggest minor reactions in some people. What's recommended in the literature now is that celiacs eating oats be followed with blood tests to be sure they can tolerate them.   Here's a link to two abstracts of r
Skylark

Skylark

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Blue Cheese

If you're ultra-sensitive, there is the blue cheese question too. Many blue cheeses are 100% naturally gluten free but some artisan cheeses have the mold culture started on bread. There is still no detectable gluten in the finished cheese so even the cheeses with cultures that were started on bread are safe for almost all of us. If you're unlucky enough to react to distilled alcohols or other grain-based products that also have no detectable gluten it's something to be aware of.   This is a
Skylark

Skylark

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Chronic Pain.....anyone?

I was just diagnosed if February with celiac disease. I have had all the typical classic symptoms through out my entire life, so you can imagine the relief I felt when there was finally an answer to what seemed to others as my chronic ailments and complaining. Im currently doing well on the diet. I was working with a sports dietitian from the Olympic Training Center in CO this past fall which is what oddly enough led to my initial diagnosis. I am a Traithlete as well as a Coach and the day to da
celiaccoachandtriathlete
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How Gluten Intolerance Might Work

Yes, that's the study. The role of an innate IL-15 response as the first step in celiac is also pretty well documented. The model is gluten -> IL-15 through innate immunity -> interferon-gamma and NK cells -> inflammation and apoptosis of epithelial cells -> abnormal antigen presentation of gliadin by DQ2 or DQ8 -> anti-gliadin antibodies -> recruitment of CD8+ cells to the intestine to "kill" the gluten -> (insert uncertain mystery step) -> TTG antibodies -> celiac.
Skylark

Skylark

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10 Tips to Empower Celiac Children to Live Gluten Free

It’s hard to imagine. In six years my celiac daughter, Emma, will go to college — living a gluten free life away from her sheltered little gluten free cocoon we’ve put together for her.  Yes, someday I will need to stop being the go-to gluten-free food encyclopedia and trust that she can keep herself healthy. Six years may seem like forever away, but before I know it, it will be here.  And what will we have taught her? Top 10 Tips to Empower a Gluten Free Chi
Amy Leger

Amy Leger

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No Longer Updating This Version Of The Blog

Hi, I started copying all our blog posts here so that when one was particularly relevant to a thread, I'd be able to link to it rather than basically rewrite the whole thing out in the thread. This was a hassle, since I had to make sure to strip out product links and links back to my blog for each post, plus change it all to bbcode from HTML, but it seemed worth it for the convenience of being able to link.   However, the board rules interpretation has changed and we can no longer link to our
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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Soups, Soups, Boy Does It....

So the other day my daughter and I were food shopping and she spotted soups from Progresso that were gluten free. We got chicken, rice with veggies and chicken tuscany and chicken corn chowder(this I made something like chicken pot pie but without the crust). She really loved that. We got home from are shopping spree so very happy that she could for lunch have soup, which I promptly made her and she starts eating it. What does she do? But look at me and say just how wonderful it is to have sou
Jersey Shore wheat no more
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Celiac Haiku

Bread, cookies, pie, cake. Who would think they are poison? Knowledge set me free.   Source: Celiac Haiku
Skylark

Skylark

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The 40 Hour Work Week Challenge - Monday

My partner, Kelsy, wrote this, not me!   As Joy and I settled into bed last night at midnight(!), I suddenly jolted awake. We forgot to do the chores! Our poor bunnies were hungry and thirsty and, after losing a chicken to a raccoon last week, we were definitely not leaving the coop open all night. Up we got, me in my bathrobe and Joy in some clothes she picked up off the floor, and trudged our weary bums outside to take care of our animals. Thank goodness the weather has turned mild.   Afte
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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A Blog For Helpful Info And Threads On Celiac.com

OK, this is not a BLOG in the traditional Victorian sense. It is more a collection of interesting and informative threads and articles on celiac.com that might helpful to people. This is a place where users of celiac com can share thread or article links that might otherwise get buried in the flood of posts. Feel free to suggest threads or articles that would fit in the categories.   As a sample, her eis a thread on Tips for Newbies started by Corwyn.   Your Top Two Pieces Of Advice for t
GFinDC

GFinDC

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The 40 Hour Work Week - Sunday

Whew! It's only Day 1 and I'm exhausted. First thing this morning, I ran out to Open Original Shared Link to pick up the soy free/corn free chicken food I ordered. Arriving home around noon and seeing Joy and the kids hard at work cleaning up the kids' rooms, I knew it was up to me to make lunch! I had thrown a chicken in the crockpot (recipe forthcoming) last night after dinner to have some cooked chicken on hand and pulled some chicken stock out of the freezer, so I threw together some soup fo
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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Positive Ttg, Negative Biopsy

This is a pretty good article that explains the December 2010 research on people with positive blood tTG or EMA blood tests and negative or Marsh 1 biopsy and its implications. Basically, because people with positive bloodwork and negative biopsy have the same metabolic markers as celiacs with full villous atrophy. The researchers recommend a gluten-free diet if you're positive on tTG or EMA, even if your biopsy is completely normal. Open Original Shared Link   Here is the Pubmed link to th
Skylark

Skylark

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Manufacturer for Publix Brand Caesar Salad Dressing Issues an Allergen Alert for Undeclared Gluten

The manufacturer of Publix Caesar Salad Dressing, Ken's Foods, Inc. is recalling a limited number of 16oz Publix Caesar Salad Dressing bottles because it may contain undeclared fish, gluten and soy allergens. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to fish, soy and gluten run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products. The dressing is 16oz. Publix Caesar Salad Dressing with an expiration date of 31MAR12 A. Bottles labeled correctly will hav
Scott Adams

Scott Adams

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The 40 Hour Work Week Challenge

I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. A lot of time. I think fully half of my personal Facebook posts are food related. One of my friends recently commented, "Do you ever get out of the kitchen?" To which I replied, "Sometimes I go to the bathroom!" I was joking. Kind of.   Being a homemaker is my full time job. An apron is my uniform. My job responsibilities include cooking food from scratch, keeping up the house, doing laundry, and taking care of my kids and my animals. In addition to my ful
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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It's Not You, It's Celiac

I was hanging at the pool one gorgeous afternoon and received a call from my GP. She had some interesting test results. She was getting ready to tell me something I had figured out a while ago but had not wanted to remotely admit. You seem, for sometime I had noticed I felt bad after eating breads or pasta and my symptoms were getting increasingly worse. As as I said I was by the pool...so it was late Spring...I had been sick since Christmas. I started asking for tests because I was dizzy, exha
lcolebank

lcolebank

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California Firm Recalls Meatball Products due to Misbranding and an Undeclared Wheat

Kim Son Food Co., an Oakland, Calif., establishment is recalling approximately 84,000 pounds of cooked beef and pork meatball products because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The products contain a known allergen, wheat, which is not declared on the label. The products subject to recall include: 12-oz. and 5-lb packages of “KIM SO’N COOKED BEEF MEAT BALLS WITH CHICKEN & ANCHOVY FLAVORED FISH SAUCE ADDED” 12-oz. and 5-lb packages of “KIM SO’N COOKED PORK MEAT BALLS ANCHOVY FLAVOR
Scott Adams

Scott Adams

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Zesty Spring Egg Salad

With all those chickens, we have lots and lots of eggs this time of year. One of my favorite ways to enjoy them is in a quick egg salad. This version celebrates Spring with an added kick from garden-fresh radishes.   The deal with fresh eggs, is that if you want them boiled, you have to think ahead. If you boil a very fresh egg, you won't be able to peel it without losing half the white along with the shell. Our trick is to let them sit on the counter a few days before boiling them. In order t
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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Going 100% Gluten-Free

Going gluten-free is harder than it looks. The pesky stuff is everywhere! Many people who are intolerant or have a wheat allergy can get away with not really worrying about trace amounts of contamination. But if you are going gluten-free because of an autoimmune problem like Open Original Shared Link, it's imperative that you get away from even the slightest cross-contamination. Some households do have mixed kitchens, but they maintain strict protocols to keep gluten-free space safe. This post i
domesticactivist

domesticactivist

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Fast Food

Big chains I know of are Wendy's and Burger King. Wendy's is celiac heaven because the chili is gluten-free so you can get a filling meal of chili and a baked potato. I'm not crazy about the taste of BK food, but you can get the chicken salad and usually the french fries are in a dedicated fryer. Boston Market is another chain where we can eat a lot of the food. I also go to Chipotle and In-N-out but I think those are local chains.   Do check those McDonald's salads carefully. It looks lik
Skylark

Skylark

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  • Blog Comments

    • dixonpete
      Father, it's been some time since my last hookworm larvae innoculation

      29 minutes ago, RMJ said:

      Dixonpete, I thought of you when I saw this article, although it may not have anything new for you.

      Worm inspired treatments inch towards the clinic

      I read a research article today about how hookworms are being considered as a standard of care of colitis. Dunno about them used for obesity treatment though. The first thing I did once I figured out I wasn't reacting to gluten anymore was to head for the bakery isle. It had been 13 years..

    • RMJ
      Father, it's been some time since my last hookworm larvae innoculation

      Dixonpete, I thought of you when I saw this article, although it may not have anything new for you.

      Worm inspired treatments inch towards the clinic

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