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    Not fair but the alternate punch line is "Captain" since that is the rank a doctor enters the military with.
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    Does that mean that Fair Trade and organic coffee definitely have gluten?
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    Which of those definitely contain gluten and which just won't state whether they have gluten?
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    My favorite is Open Original Shared Link.
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    Perhaps I'm getting hung up on semantics but it seems that there are mulitple concepts being used inconsistently. First there is he idea that there is a threshold, a total amount of gluten than can be consumed without reaction. The study linked by SBJ indicates that is probably between 10 and 50 mg. If you don't accept that, than nothing other than...
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    That isn't the "logic" of anyone posting in this thread.
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    I edited my post above to clarify but no. You would have consumed 100 units of gluten while consuming 5 million units of food. That is still 20 ppm.
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    If everything you eat has 20 ppm of something, you consume 20 ppm no matter how many servings you have. The denominator and numerator of that fraction both are increasing. Edit to add: The comments below explain this better. I meant that the denominator and the numerator of the fraction that you use to calculate the ratio (i.e. standardize the denominator...
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    Based on this thread I called the Logan's in the Fair Lakes area (Fairfax County, VA, just outside of DC). They said they had a gluten free menu. We ate there tonight. It will be nice to have another restaurant to choose from. The food was okay and the price was okay.
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    Edited to remove entire comment.
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    Do you have a problem with the specific link or just the fact that there is a chance that someone could have put incorrect information on wikepedia?
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    I added bold to the part of the post I'm referencing, left the rest for context. I think the point really would be that you can't draw any valid statistics from either side because of the sensational nature of bad doctor stories and the less dramatic nature of good doctor stories. The issues isn't using the 57 as a guide line in how you look at stuff. ...
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    That is what I thought she was saying. I was trying to say how I thought that way of thinking might be wrong. This article about Open Original Shared Linkis perhaps a better explanation of what I meant.
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    ARCHIVED The Dentist And Gluten

    Tim-n-VA replied to veggiemama's topic in Doctors

    Having a dental product that definitely has gluten would be a great fact to use to start the conversation with a dentist. I wonder if they say "no gluten" without really thinking about the inert ingredients. However, I've asked for a dental product with gluten in several different threads on this site and the closest anyone has come up with are companies...
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    I don't think anyone said that the beef is the rare human mistakes. Your last statement is the issue. When people go to a doctor and get successful treatment they don't go to someone else in pain so your view is distorted because you see a disproportinate number of people who were failed by their doctors.
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    One source I found in a search said that there were over 600,000 doctors in the US involved in patient care. This is a board oriented toward a disease that shares symtoms with other diseases making it tricky to diagnose. The board has over 26,000 registered members but fewer than 200 have more than 500 posts. I don't know what the average number of doctors...
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    I think that the biopsy is considered the gold standard in context. That is, a typical person getting a biopsy to test for celiac has symptoms and has already had a positive blood test. Since any of these together can be false indicators, having all of those is a "gold standard". I suspect that some doctors and patients don't understand the statistical...
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    The Giant closest to me didn't have any of those products in the ad. They suggested that I try one of the larger stores. I went to a larger Giant (that just sounds strange) and they had a gluten-free section (about half the size of one in Wegmans but that is still significant compared to most stores). In their freezer section they had the Gluten Free Cafe...
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    Not sure how wide spread they are but there are lots of Giant grocery stores in the mid-Atlantic area, especially around DC. I have not been impressed with their in-store gluten-free selection. They might have it but don't seem to make it easy to find. Yesterday in the mail I received their weekely ad. On the third page there was a box in the bottom...
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    I've visited that particular store twice over the last few months. The last time it was very busy (right before a hockey game). The "seasonal vegetable" was squash. They brought my plate with a mound of yellow/orange stuff and I didn't think anything about it. Before I could take a bite the waitress came by (someone else had brought our food) and stopped...
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    Did I miss something? You have one company (Abbott) that says their suppliers say there is no gluten but they won't make a guarantee. You have another company (Mylan) that says they don't put gluten in their generic product. We all have to make our choices on these but I don't see either of these are any more likely or less likely to be an issue. ...
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    For the oven I don't think you really have to worry. The general guide would be if the same surface comes in contact with both gluten and non-gluten items. If you have cooked one of those pizza that say "place directly on the oven rack" you wouldn't want to put any non-gluten item directly on the rack. Generally in a dish in the same oven would be okay...
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    The best pre-made bread that I've found is Whole Foods Gluten-Free Bakehouse Sandwich Bread. By "best" I mean that I can eat it in a pinch. I prefer to make my own with the Pamela's Wheat Free Breadmix. Like most things, personal preferences play a big part in this.
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    P.F. Chang's is one national chain that has a gluten free menu. There have been reports of people getting sick there but I've not had any problems.
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    Up to a point this is a preference thing. Both my non-celiac wife and I like Pamela's Pancake mix. What was the brand that you didn't like? Or did your grandmom not like it? Or did someone tell her it wasn't good? I don't mean for that to be sarcastic but it sometimes helps if you provide a reference point. That is, "I didn't like this, recommend...
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