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  1. Takala
    Although I do not avoid nightshades, canned or freshly cooked pumpkin makes an excellent sauce ingredient in soups and stews. With sweetener, it can be made into really good pudding or pies with coconut milk.
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    What the bleeping ****. I am going to have to forbid my spouse from buying staples by himself. I noticed the label is changed on our brand new package of Hain Sea Salt. The front label is now the typical spin, "From a Natural Source." Ingredients: The salt COULD contain an unsourced grain product from dextrose. Dextrose in the...
  3. Takala
    Ah, but blood tests first, THEN diet change, or the tests won't show anything, if you are going to test for a baseline. https://www.celiac.com/articles/32/1/How-accurate-are-blood-antibody-tests/Page1.html The endomysial and anti tissue transglutamimase antibody tests are supposed to be the most accurate, but if you have low IGA, it can skew...
  4. Takala
    It could also be another ingredient besides the gums. I remember vividly 2 years ago, we stopped at the grocery store and I purchased a box of expensive, nice, tasty gluten free cookies as a treat, and I ate some on the way home after kayaking. Like maybe 2 cookies. Stomach felt like it had a rock in it by the time we got home. Thought I was going...
  5. Takala
    There are two kinds of kids, the kind that eat anything, everything, and the .... other kind. If you've got the really, really picky kind, especially the picky kind stuck on eating just the same few things over and over again, it might be better to ease them into it, like over a week or so, (after testing) so they don't automatically balk at the thought...
  6. Takala
    I don't know how much gum will cause a gastro reaction, as that would vary from individual to individual. Some are more sensitive to it, than others. However, 15 grams of the stuff would be around 3 to 4 teaspoons, depending on volume, and the amount of xanthan gum in gluten free flours can be around a half teaspoon to one teaspoon per cup, for types...
  7. Takala
    Did I mention Dr Fasano anywhere in my critique? NO. My beef is with the Pharma and Agricultural lobbyists using media such as AP, to write slanted stories, who are actively working against 1. gluten labeling standards in the United States and 2. same lobbyists actively working against increased awareness and diagnosis of celiac and gluten intolerance...
  8. Takala
    I believe that the researchers and the way these articles are being written are still trying to ignore that the "non- white" population (grits teeth when I have to type that) as they refer to it, has a much higher rate of auto immune diseases and problems here in the United States. I believe that the so - called "fibromyalgia" epidemic, is nothing more...
  9. Takala
    Okay, let me rephrase this. First, The Quote: The celiac test the study used, was a blood test , remember ? If one is already on a gluten free diet, the blood tests come back negative. Tah - dah. You don't officially have celiac. And you won't test positive evermore. Unless you go off of it. In my other comments, I already addressed...
  10. Takala
    I have been using sweet potato flour (at least that is what it says on the box) from Peru, in small quantities mixed with other gluten free flours, a little adds a bit of a sweet taste to the high protein type mixes, without having to use sugar or agave.
  11. Takala
    Open Original Shared Link "2 million white Americans have celiac disease..." And now a variation of the same makes MSNBC. Anyone else see a pattern to this yet ? That would be 29 of the 3432 did have a positive blood sample, or slightly under 1% (.08) But six of 35 is 17% "with celiac disease were not white." 100%...
  12. Takala
    Oh. Dear. God. Not just the headline, the whole article. Reading that is enough to make me want to tear my hair out. It's National War on Perception of Celiac and Gluten Intolerance Prevalence Season. What next, our own drinking fountains ?
  13. Takala
    And of course, there is also the problem with these articles pretending that a celiac on a gluten free diet cannot eat goodies like cake, donuts, cookies, or pastas, by selectively quoting someone who is making it sound really difficult, when, the truth is, there are plenty of gluten free substitutes that can be purchased or made.
  14. Takala
    Not a day goes by that I don't run across that same Associated Press mistake in one of these celiac "information" articles, which attempts to downgrade or mislead the number of celiacs. This newspaper based in the North Dakota area recently ran another celiac and gluten free food article which sounded like it was written by a wheat lobbyist, it was so full...
  15. Takala
    If you are feeling better without it, and your doctor is in agreement, then continue to eat a diet without gluten. Three weeks is not that long a time to recover from all the bad effects, whether it is celiac or gluten intolerance. Maca and irregular heartbeat discussed here, for starters (and read the comments) Open Original Shared Link
  16. Takala
    "We" don't all dream of gluten filled bread and pasta. I'll never have the official diagnosis because of medical malpractice, but at least I'm not dead yet, not in a wheelchair, nor looking for excuses to keep being sick.
  17. Takala
    Review of above articles: Carly Romanino's (Gluten free diets...) in Gloucester County Times - very good. Thank you. ______________ Utica Observer Dispatch blog (Cooking: is gluten free a fad?) by Scott Tranter. Odd hiccup in the blog where several paragraphs repeat themselves several times. Factual mistake in the blog, cites Joseph Murray study...
  18. Takala
    I love it. Sorry about the reaction.
  19. Takala
    These are all symptoms of celiac neurological issues. That and the chronic constipation suggest you are still getting cross contaminated in some way. Try reviewing everything that goes into your mouth, and seeing if you can weed out where the possible culprit is. You may be a super sensitive, and have to be super vigilant about medications, what brands...
  20. Takala
    I haven't done this yet, but.... given how gluten free doughs tend to have surprising behaviors, I think I would at least use aluminum foil or a metal pan the first time on a grill. I could just see all this expensive, gluten-free pizza dough sticking badly or going *splat* thru the rungs of the grill and then going up in flames. Now, if it were a...
  21. Takala
    Ed in Baja, There is a genetic link between celiac and type 1 diabetes - as you have found out - imagine how many other diabetics are out there with the peripheral neuropathy and have no idea why. Mindboggling. You don't sound like you're too brain fogged yet. Even if you do have some damage (I have documented brain damage, seen from a scan, and...
  22. Takala
    I wish the moderators on this board would clarify what the official editorial stance is here towards improved labeling laws in the United States. Either, Yes, they would like to see them, or No, you are wasting your time here if you expect advocacy for less deceptive labeling. My definition of "improved" is different than what the Codex stuff is...
  23. Takala
    These allergy tests are sort of frustrating. When I was a child, I was hyper sensitive to so many different things in my environment and it was because NOBODY could connect it with the gluten that was actually causing the problem. I think I reacted to almost everything on the scratch test, for a while I was on this really restricted diet that did absolutely...
  24. Takala
    Or you could try making yogurt out of the goat's milk, using a dab of regular yogurt. I bet if you put some chia into some canned coconut milk, say a tablespoon into a half cup, and then added a bit of buckwheat, say 2 tblsps, the concoction would be Pretty Thick after a short soaking. Then you could add almond meal, oil, and some leavening and try...
  25. Takala
    Did they do a full celiac blood test panel, or just the one test ? Biopsies also miss a lot because the damage is patchy.
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