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  1. Takala
    This is nature's way of telling you that the better you can manage your celiac, the more energy you will have. It is not so much the absorbing nutrients is wrecked, but being glutened provokes an entire auto- immune reaction, which means parts of your own body are being primed to actually attack other parts, as if they were a foreign invader. It is as...
  2. Takala
    You are lucky if this is what it is. It is the only auto immune disease whose symptoms can be controlled by just changing your diet to what your body was designed to eat. Now, keep in mind that antibodies to gluten protein is messing with your brain right now, including it influencing the feeling of "I cannot handle this." Once off of gluten completely...
  3. Takala
    Oh, yummy! If I were going to do this homemade, it would not be a problem to sub this for gluten free. Use safe gluten free corn tortillas and corn chips (Mission). Cook the chicken, steak without any gluten products. This is easy to do if you just don't use preseasoned package mixes, but the plain single spices. (use McCormicks, they will label...
  4. Takala
    If people were going to croak off from mere skin rashes, I would have been gone 40 years ago. I mean, really, if that last bout of poison oak didn't get me, I must have some sort of healing ability. Leaves of three, nuckleeyar annihilate thee !
  5. Takala
    They really know how to exploit the "exemptions" rules here in American Exceptionalism Land. I've worked the '7 hours on my feet doing hard physical labor with a ten minute break' routine, and was told I was lucky to get that, because they didn't have to provide it. Also worked (for a short time, they never kept employees) at an agricultural job in...
  6. Takala
    I chuckled out loud, when I read this. I would bake a potato and then do up some home fries with that. Go for the full-meal deal.
  7. Takala
    Could she mail order bare minerals in pinks and reds, and then mix a little bit of it with a little bit of whatever natural type gluten free oil she has available for each application ? A little pot of that stuff is pricey, but it only takes a tiny amount and it lasts a long time - I use it for eye makeup, dry, or mixed with water, sometimes with a tiny...
  8. Takala
    Yes, of course, there are people who are older than you who have gotten much better. You may have to continuously keep re- tweaking "the diet" in the beginning, to get the hang of what works with your individual needs. I can't eat commercial cereals in the am anymore, and be worth a darn. I can, however, eat real foods and feel much better....
  9. Takala
    I have had some really bad reactions to the BRM corn products, even those labeled gluten free. Not other corn, so it's them. I tried their plain cornmeal products, also, and had the same reaction. You have to be extremely, extremely careful with any of their corn products, as they also package some as not gluten free. READ THE LABEL. This is true...
  10. Takala
    I've seen smaller (half) bricks at home supply stores, before you try breaking one. You could also contact a pottery maker and see if they could make you a custom one. This is such great ancient technology, cooking with rocks is thousands of years old. We have so many rocks here, river polished granite types that came down from the great Sierra, that...
  11. Takala
    I'm not the o.p. on that, but my guess is they might be referring to the pending possibility that the FDA finally coughs up a rule change and makes a definition of what they will consider "gluten free." Depending on how they do it, it could make things better, or it could make things even worse. If they make it worse (remember, these are bureaucrats...
  12. Takala
    Domino's Pizza is not gluten free. It is a deliberate mislabeling on the part of the vendor. It is not accommodating gluten free. It is not suitable for people on a true gluten free diet avoiding all gluten and not just casually, celiacs, or those with a medically acknowledged illness auto immune response to gluten. Because of Domino's extremely irresponsible...
  13. Takala
    First, you start with either selecting a natural food such as a plain meat, vegetable, fruit, or you read the label. And you are also going to be looking at the manufacturer (reliable reputation, or not so much). Use the kung- fu of the Google to check foods out. Say gluten free and the name of the item, and see what comes up. Many people become...
  14. Takala
    Why would you want to make yourself so ill again, if you've had such good results with a gluten free diet ? From what you have written, you already have been thoroughly tested by a GI doctor, and the best he could come up with is "inconclusive," then "negative." You have the best almost- diagnosis from the family doctor who said "gluten intolerance...
  15. Takala
    Thank you so much for doing this. NFCA response so far is not giving confidence that their intent is "patient" advocacy, if any company can get the "amber" sticker and use it to retail items which are Gluten Free In Name Only, but then the company is targeting marketing to those seeking gluten free food. NFCA's twitter feed, if anyone wants to...
  16. Takala
    Ditch the Benefiber. It may claim to be "gluten free," but it has wheat dextrin in it. Open Original Shared Link And please tell me you are not taking the "Juice Plus" "Garden Blend," which contains BARLEY. And OATS. pdf download of ingredients - Open Original Shared Link Yeah, they're claiming that they removed the gluten, but...
  17. Takala
    When I saw your back posts, your daughter had a positive blood work test result, symptoms consistent w/ celiac, type 1 diabetes, and hypothyroidism. Now the vitamin levels are low. This is all consistent w/ celiac, except that the biopsy was supposedly negative ? Who called you on that, and what did they say, but what does it actually say on the...
  18. Takala
    He's only four years old. You're the grown up. You make the rules. You run the household, shop, prepare. ALL of those foods come in gluten free form. Bread can be purchased or made gluten free for sandwiches. So can pizza crusts. This isn't even a balanced diet. And the extreme pickiness is already typical of a food intolerance lurking..... ...
  19. Takala
    Peter, I was agreeing with you. But I am rather dismayed that these non profit "celiac orgs" and trade groups like National Foundation for Celiac Awareness somehow get associated with this newest version of "GFINO" from Domino's. The Domino's video I saw had their "sticker" on it, saying the NFCA did not recommend this for celiacs. Most common people...
  20. Takala
    We (the generic "we," including those of us who do eat real gluten free pizza out from smaller restaurant venues and do not get glutened from this) know that a dedicated oven is not going to happen. HOWEVER, a dedicated PIZZA PAN and all utensils and oven mitts touching the alleged gluten free pizza is obligatory, is as using all dedicated gluten free...
  21. Takala
    Yes, but this really is a bipartisan issue, since Republicans need to eat, also. And that is why I am working on framing this in terms that could be appealing to their constituents, because if their voters are calling them up and saying, why are you not saving us money on drugs and making them safer from foreign sourced ingredients, (most of your drug...
  22. Takala
    Get a pint of dairy free coconut milk ice cream. Make a microwave bun-in-a-cup recipe for your own personal "cake," using whatever ingredients agree with your dietary needs, such as low/no sugar with sweetener of choice and high protein flours. Once you stop eating much sugar, you lose your taste for it, especially when you realize that you're craving...
  23. Takala
    The only place that's left red is some of my thinning eyebrows and eyelashes. I was born light blonde that went to strawberry blonde and then it darkened to dark medium ashy mixed by high school, so it was very easy to bring it back up to lighter with mild highlighting solutions. It got very dark (the roots) by my forties, then started to go dull ashy mudd...
  24. Takala
    Information on this may be found on THOMAS, which is the search engine for the Congress of the United States. Once you are at the THOMAS website, the easiest way to find something is select the name of the sponsoring congressperson or senator, and scroll down until you find the matching bill. (searching by keywords can be done, but this is the easiest...
  25. Takala
    Bummer that you are not in Sacramento, CA. There is an Indian buffet restaurant there in mid-town, where it is gluten free, except for the optional naan bread. And the owner is knowledgable. A lot of Indian food is already or easily converts to gluten free, (except for the naan) so it sounds like there is a communications problem here (and they're running...
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