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  1. Takala
    LMAO when the host sticks his fingers into the pizza dough to "pat it down" and the dough sticks like crazy to his hands hah hah that's what you get for using soy flour and a little too much liquid. If you want dough to act like dough, use a Chebe mix (all tapioca, with shredded cheese and egg added) and oil your fingers before patting, also, put gluten...
  2. Takala
    I just could not figure out the attraction of beer, or why in the world anyone would willingly drink such a thing. I have heard beer described as liquid bread. I tried drinking fake non alcoholic beer for awhile, as a young adult, which is worse. Of course, in restaurants now, when the waiter will say, "Oh, we have Redbridge! Would you like that with your...
  3. Takala
    Not trying to antagonize anyone back, however, just signing a petition is NOT going to get you better labeling rules. There is simply not a large enough demographic, according to the people counting the votes in the swing states, to be worth antagonizing the manufacturers in the food industry with another labeling rule at this late date in a political campaign...
  4. Takala
    Awwww.... don't cry, Adalaide. At least he's going to stay gluten free at home.
  5. Takala
    I've been doing it because it seemed an easier way to get more green vegetables.... I eat a lot of salads already, and there is only so many times you can look at the same salad ingredients, and not wish it were something else. And this has helped with my retaining moisture in my gut for exercise, as I don't sweat normally. I just put whatever vegetables...
  6. Takala
    Meh. Another "pro wheat" article quoting the flakey celebrities of the gluten-free movement, while it attempts to make its point. There is no "war" on wheat, but there certainly is a lot of pushback from the lobbying industry bad- mouthing the true, medical need for a gluten free diet.
  7. Takala
    Plumbago, The current administration is notorious for ignoring petitions, or changing the criteria of what they consider critical mass, but very good at collecting data on who's noticing that they haven't addressed a certain issue or topic. From Peter's link, (here: Open Original Shared Link ) the problem with this proposed...
  8. Takala
    We eat mostly whole foods at home, meat & veg & fruit, + I bake with stuff I mix up myself. "Fruit" or gelato = dessert.
  9. Takala
    Sounds like you could have either celiac, or non- celiac gluten intolerance, both of which respond to a gluten free diet. If you haven't been tested for celiac, you should try to get that arranged for, and if the blood tests come back negative, stick to your FODMAPS diet anyway..... no one can force you to eat gluten or any other food, if it is bad for...
  10. Takala
    You will eventually be able to distinguish between the two because the symptoms will be different with a glutening. This is how I figured out that millet (grain) bothered me, for example. My gluten symptoms include brain fog, headachey, joints flaring, gut puffing up a bit, and water retention/swelling in my ankles and feet. Millet was just causing...
  11. Takala
    You know that mood swings and crankiness are also a side effect of being glutened, don't you ? Perhaps you have a cross contamination problem instead of a pill problem. And if it is only six months you have been avoiding gluten, you may not have all the ins and outs down yet - like, if the boyfriend eats it, he needs to brush his teeth before kissing you...
  12. Takala
    Been there, done that, got the t- shirt..... ah, childhood.
  13. Takala
    There is, in my experience, a cause and effect relationship between eating gluten and recurrent UTI's. In my case, I kept having calcium crystals and protein showing up in the urine, and was constantly fighting these infections while on a "normal" diet. This has resolved on a gluten free diet. The bone loses minerals to replace missing blood calcium,...
  14. Takala
    Oh, look, it's the pharma- vaccine flunky "science" blogger "Hank Campbell" (author of the infamous "Celiac: The Trendy Disease for Rich White People") at it again. What a poorly written reblog of another magazine article here, Open Original Shared Link because he LEFT OUT much of the study conducted by researcher Myl
  15. Takala
    Yup. Buckwheat (and Amaranth, which they did not study) added to almost anything gluten-free makes the bread recipe much better, more doughlike, besides the increase in proteins and better taste.
  16. Takala
    A calcium supplement with magnesium, or just a gluten-free magnesium supplement. Others mentioned the water. Coffee. Dried dates (you can use Larabars for this, altho I don't know if the Larabar people want it advertised that way )
  17. Takala
    And rinse, rinse, rinse. DON'T PUT BLEACH IN DISHWASHER. Do NOT mix bleach and other forms of soap or detergents, as the bleach and soap react with each other and form a poisonous gas. Bleach does not deactivate gluten. You can take a spray bottle of water, add a bit of pure apple cider vinegar and some clear non gluten alcohol like vodka or gluten...
  18. Takala
    There's your problem.
  19. Takala
    I cannot figure out why this person (DiSalvo) wrote this article, unless some investor is reading Forbes and wants to know if the long term trend for gluten free products is for real, or the result of a sort of mass hysteria that is just waiting for the "science blogging" community to debunk so things can get back to "normal." Yeah, that's sarcasm....
  20. Takala
    I don't know much about Crohn's, but if you know you are gluten intolerant, and don't get along with dairy, stick with that gluten free diet and ditch the dairy. I've had sero negative arthritis since in my twenties, and never have had a blood test show those typical inflammatory markers, have had idiot new docs actually try to tell me I haven't got...
  21. Takala
    If you are eating a gluten free food item which is new to you, then you could be reacting to one of those ingredients. One normally does not react the first time, but the second or third. Hives can also be caused by something you've come in contact with, but not ingested. "last night I developed some hives...." so go over in your mind what exactly did...
  22. Takala
    The numbers should drop. But it varies from person to person, depends on the lab where it was sent (different ones use different scales), the individual physiology, how strict with the diet, have they rooted out surprise cross contamination sources, etc. Some years ago my current PCP ran a panel on me, (called it a "blood panel") and the nurse calls...
  23. Takala
    The longer the kid stays on a gluten free diet, the less likely is a positive biopsy which would give a definite diagnosis because he or she may in that time begin to heal..... waiting for the biopsy does not make any sense. Now, if your child is on the gluten free diet faithfully, you see improvements in symptoms, AND his bloodwork shows an improvement...
  24. Takala
    You can use baking soda and pure apple cider or other gluten free vinegar, or lemon juice, or yogurt (which is acidic) just fine for baking. Just don't add the vinegar and then let it sit for a long while, because the baking soda will fizz up and then go flat. The reason there is a grain byproduct in the dry baking powders, is to keep the faster acting...
  25. Takala
    The genes are hereditary and he would have had to have inherited them from somebody... so if it did turn out that he had celiac, they would recommend that you get tested also, as a first degree relative. You might also not be sick enough yet to think of yourself as "sick," like you said, because for you what might feel normal might be for another person...
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