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    I realize that I can learn from others experience - that's the main reason I visit this site. But, I also know that everyone has different levels of sensitivity and different reactions. I have read lots of annecdotal evidence that people were is some level of "denial" about how gluten-free they need to be. I've never read anyone's story where they were...
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    What do you mean by 100% gluten free? Everything that I read on this board indicates that is an impossible goal. You don't know how many days in a row I avoided eating gluten yet you are able to say that I'm somehow being less gluten-free than anyone else. The ironic part is that GPF went into great detail about how he figured out that what worked...
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    Interestingly, I am biopsy diagnosed but I don't describe myself as a "Celiac". I have celiac disease. I don't know why I make that distinction when I have no hesitation to say I am a diabetic.
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    I suspect that someone is thinking they are helping by putting all of the specialty flours together...
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    Please read my full message, especially the part about each of us needing to find what works for us. I don't know why anyone would try to take what I said as a blanket statement.
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    There are subtle and major differences in how all of us react to gluten. At some level you have to figure out what works for you. My doctor and I discussed this and we decided that the solution is avoid eating gluten, to be careful but not obsessive about cross contamination (I didn't buy new cookware or a new toaster) and monitor antibodies via blood tests...
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    ARCHIVED Cheating

    Tim-n-VA replied to Kaycee's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    To me, cheating is the appropriate word when you are breaking a rule/agreement. To the extent your decision only impacts you (conveniently ignoring the impact on friends and relatives), you can't cheat on yourself. You make decisions. You make choices. You live with the results. Frequently co-workers make friendly comments about what I "can't" eat...
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    Duplicate post - is there a delete?
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    Of course "testing" someone without their knowing is wrong. But, there was a question of why they would do it and their have been some answers that put that in perspective. It doesn't justify or excuse it but knowing that perspective might give another path to make them understand. The "touching" analogy was interesting. A few years ago I read an article...
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    The ones here in Northern VA make gluten-free bread twice a month. They clearly state that they are a wheat bakery and they try to avoid cross-contamination but don't make guarantees. I generally find it too sweet for most sandwiches but occasionally buy it for toast. I intentionally bought a loaf the week before my last blood test. I don't see the...
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    I went to a local restaurant because I'd read here that they had a gluten-free menu. The hostess said they'd have the menu at the table. The waiter said they didn't have a "gluten menu" but to just pick something and he'd tell me if it was okay. When he came back with the drinks, he told me they had a special menu after all. The good part was when...
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    Sorry, my internet cynical side was showing. A particular incident was mentioned and "read these three things to find it" seemed unusual. I skimmed all three and didn't see that specific item but I didn't read them all. I did see one thing that at least met some basic threshold - if there is a process (fermentation) that breaks down the gluten, it is...
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    Are you going to tell us which one has the anecdote?
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    Is there a website with info on this conference? Never mind - found it on the main page.
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    Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link According to those two sites, the answer is that generally the green contains a poison and shoudl be avoided but it would take over four pounds to harm a healthy adult. Edit to add: Nantzie posted at the same time as I did and her source has a different answer. Take your pick.
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    Hops is the other ingredient, along with barley, in most beer. It is not made from barley.
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    I agree. I think the key issues we are in sync on. The format of internet messaging sometimes leads to digression based on minor sematics that would quickly be smoothed over if talking face-to-face.
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    I guess what bothers me about the whole thing is the idea that someone thinks they have the right to decide what someone else should do, even for a few seconds. When I used DC public transit (and occasionally still do), I use that time to read. Ironically, I taught myself to read music while reading books on DC area transit. I can see, and mostly...
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    There was an online chat about this at the Washington Post website. Some interesting comments. The link is below: Open Original Shared Link
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    Why is it not okay for people to enjoy music only when it is on their schedule yet the participants in the experiment expect people to conform to their schedule (Friday morning rush hour)? As I said, my sense of people being put down was not just the article, it was the article and the comments on this and other boards. Granted in the article there wasn...
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    I don't claim to have any great insight on this one. In the DC metro, there is generally no musicians allowed. That is why the one person considered calling security. My experience with kids is that their attention is drawn to anything different be it a musician where one normally doesn't appear or a stick with a funny twist. I just think that too...
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    Blue shovel for me. Shovel is definitely a tool.
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    I mostly agree but there is a beauty in getting to the office and getting that difficult software feature to work properly. Beauty is found in lots of different places, not just in the classical view of the arts. But, I'll concede that some people missed something that they would have enjoyed and didn't "replace" it with anything other than a routine...
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    Don't need the $100 bills, if they were handing out CDs a lot of people would have taken them and listened later. The 1000+ people who walked by there all had different situations in their lives that morning. It just strikes me as arrogant to say "this music I like is more important than anything you have planned today" and somehow put down people who didn...
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    It certainly was an interesting experiment but I'm not sure any of the generalizations being made (I saw this posted and discussed on a music forum also) are valid. I listened to all of the clips and I can say that even if I'd know that he was famous I wouldn't have stopped to listen. That is not an instrument I enjoy listening to.
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