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  1. Takala
    Do your research before you go on what sort of food is available, as in, you've already found the health food store, but also check out the grocery stores and their locations, as some are better than others. Also, do searches on local restaurants "gluten free name of town restaurant" to see if there are any in the area which could make you a meal, or give...
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    I think Kinnikinnick in Canada sells this "holiday loaf" which is gluten free, during Nov and Dec, and has dried fruit and spices in it. It also does not have nuts. It's called Festive Bread. I haven't seen it down here yet. Open Original Shared Link
  3. Takala
    No, your family can consider that they have the choice to vacation in a different style that might include not dining in restaurants which don't serve gluten free food you can eat ! Gaaah... rude people. The orig. poster is in a different situation, between her food restrictions and her immediate family's (daughter) food restrictions, in combination...
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    Since you asked for advice, and claim to be diagnosed as a celiac, a disease which is caused by an auto immune reaction to all the wheat family, which means that the medical profession told you to adhere to a gluten free diet, and you are not doing that, ..... I suggest that you ask yourself why you are defying medical advice, and seek help from your doctor...
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    Try the nuts online store. You also may be reacting to "other" nuts that come in contact with the almonds. It is hard to sort out the reactions, sometimes. I was really bummed last year, when the local farmer's market type store, which sold bulk almonds by the pound prepacked in large, economic bags, changed their packaging to the dreaded "packed in...
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    Oh, just enough to get the doc's office reimbursed by the health insurance when the claim is submitted...... did this dosing genius bother to send you to a lab now for some blood samples to be drawn for a celiac panel, so they could be compared to something done in the future, to see if there is any change when you do ingest gluten, or is she waiting...
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    If I am remembering correctly, they (FDA) outsourced the first commentary period on the rule change to a private company, it was not done on the FDA website, and the comment acceptance time period was short, and they did not want to be bothered unless the person was officially diagnosed as celiac, which, for technical reasons beyond our control, knocks some...
  8. Takala
    Did you say you have PCOS ? That goes along with insulin resistance. You just ate fruit, fruit, grain, rice & broth, & fruit juice. In other words, sugar sugar starch starch minimal protein sugar. This type of high glycemic index eating does not work well with this condition. You will need to eat small, high quality meals, 4 to 6 a...
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    This article was from April..... If you read it again, it says FDA intends to issue rules by the end of fiscal year 2012. The fiscal year for the Federal government of the U.S. does not match the calendar year. It runs from Oct 1 of one year to Sept 30 of the year it is named for, so Fiscal Year 2012 ran from Oct 1, 2011, to Sept 30, 2012....
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    You wouldn't mind if I dropped one in ten pizzas on the floor in the restaurant kitchen, then. After all, every meal out is a crapshoot. If Domino's and NFCA think it's okay to randomly expose a few celiacs to low levels of gluten, then the rest of the pizza industry shouldn't feel it necessary to be careful about exposing the rest of the pizza eaters to...
  11. Takala

    ARCHIVED Can I Eat Sushi?

    Takala replied to cblack's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Well, it doesn't seem fair to try to taint the restaurants here in North America that do manage to serve gluten free sushi, just because the Japanese restaurants and vendors in Japan don't do well with the concept of "gluten free" and sourcing their ingredients. We do have rudimentary labeling laws here in the USA for the eight major allergens (one of which...
  12. Takala
    Losing a younger dog is such a shock. We lost our younger newf/retriever cross last year in the space of a few hours, this vibrant dog went from healthy and running around, to having a massive seizure out of the blue, of which he never really recovered, and we live too far away to get them there in the required 10 minutes before damage sets in, then he seized...
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    Celiac can be triggered by lyme disease, it is possible to have both, or get rid of one but sometimes not the other. Thyroid problems highly linked to celiac, too. Funny how the conventional wisdom never blames bad thyroids on deer ticks....
  14. Takala
    Well..... you can do that, or you can just try going completely off of gluten for a time, say several weeks, and then reintroduce it, and see what happens. There is such a thing as non- celiac gluten intolerance, it won't show up on the biopsy of the small intestine, but it does exist. And there are people, for whom the reasons are unknown, who just...
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    We need to stop them from putting this GMO garbage "modified sorta kinda like don't look too closely not toxic to celiacs gluten" wheat genetic material into RICE, to create what they pretend is a safe, drought - tolerant version of it. Talk about nightmare scenarios, and that is certainly where this could be heading, because of the vicious fight they waged...
  16. Takala
    You can try fresh tuna or fresh frozen plain tuna, and cook it yourself, to test if it is a canned tuna processing problem.
  17. Takala
    Try a mixture of 1/3 tapioca, 1/3 buckwheat, 1/3 amaranth, or 1/4 tapioca, 1/4 almond meal, 1/3 buckwheat, 1/3 amaranth, or 1/3 buckwheat, 1/3 potato starch, 1/3 garbanzo or white bean flour All of these are "stickier" than rice flours and need less gums. You can take a teaspoon of chia seed (or more) per cup of flour mixture used, and soak it in...
  18. Takala
    You can check out lotions, etc, by doing a search engine query of: gluten free name of item you are wanting to purchase such as "gluten free baby lotion" I have very sensitive skin and have been known to react to unknown ingredients in some baby stuff such as the (probably) cross contaminated cornstarch in non-talc baby powders, some "natural...
  19. Takala
    Well, that's a bummer. Say, while you're in a state of having a positive blood test, could you possibly finangle another biopsy from some other GI ? ( just kidding.... ) So, it is just a matter of figuring out where the gluten has crept into your life, again, and eliminating it. So, first ask: has anything changed recently in your life ?...
  20. Takala
    Chances are if your dishes were pre rinsed before being put in the dishwasher, you are fine. There is nothing "magical" about soap "killing" germs or proteins, all it does is make it easier for the debris to be rinsed away by making things more slippery.
  21. Takala
    Pursue testing, but, when that is done, go ahead and seriously trial a gluten free diet, (and medications) to see how you respond. Testing is not 100% accurate, and gluten intolerance may not show up the way celiac disease does. Lyme disease can make one gluten intolerant and problems with thyroid and insulin resistance also go along with it. You may...
  22. Takala
    That was so awful, I wonder if celebrity addiction "doctor" Drew Pinsky he thought she just had a "celebrity eating disorder" and he was the celebrity doctor who thought he could make a celebrity $ buck off of it. Movie database bio for Drew Pinsky Open Original Shared Link
  23. Takala
    Even if it is "only" a wheat allergy, you still have to avoid wheat protein, aka "gluten," so don't be shy about hanging around and learning. As long as you recognize that you need to avoid the wheat family around here, you have common interests and nobody is going to quibble over diagnosis status whether it is an "intolerance," or something else... (as...
  24. Takala
    Bring your own snack or meal, and keep it separate because otherwise it will get contaminated. But also, at potlucks, bring a gluten free dish to share, but make sure your serving of it is already out before it is displayed on the table. Might mean you have to make yours in a little separate casserole at home at the same time. For example, I've made cookies...
  25. Takala
    Try eating more good fats, coconut oil/milk, avocados, olive oil, nuts, uncontaminated chocolate. How about some eggs ? From your symptoms, I would guess you are still getting cross contaminated somewhere. Sometimes this can be from just one item, and it nearly drives you crazy until you figure it out. I don't know how accurate your gluten free labeling...
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