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  1. Takala
    Re Cross Contamination: Paper Towels Are Your New Very Best Friends. Also ziplock plastic bags in small and large, with a permanent sharpie marker. For example, new wooden cutting board gets labeled gluten-free prominently for the memory challenged. Any food leftovers that are safe get labeled the same way. We have a gluten free...
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    Nice writeup. Did she mention what she thought the prevalence was of gluten intolerant and celiac people in Canada in the general population ? I would have ratted out the vendor to whatever entity put the event on, with the regular pretzels going off the table and leaving the cc'd sauces out (altho you won't catch me using a public "dipping...
  3. Takala
    This was a wonderful article- thank you Dr Hogan- I saved it and did some more reading on this "Biagi" fellow - and everybody should at least look at it. There are, from my reading on certain other sources, a puzzling but very real pushback against various common sense concepts on the internet social sites like "not eating food that makes you sick,...
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    I can't taste guar gum. Some people use a slurry of hot boiling water and dissolve ground flax or chia seeds into it to make a gel. I've tried the psylium as an experiment and it definitely set up the experiment as a success at baking a bricklike hockey puck in the ramekin in the microwave, so there is some potential there. Others have had...
  5. Takala
    Eat well, including good fats such as olive and coconut oils, but avoid the things you react to, including the ingredients in any supplements, rinse your hair well with water instead of washing it everyday, saving the shampooing for several times a week or if it's really sweaty or dirty,(search on "co rinsing hair care") final rinse with apple cider vinegar...
  6. Takala
    Oh, mercy. We were almost doing pretty well there (because they interviewed Shauna Ahern) until we got to the advice from the registered dietician.
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    With our luck, they'll have soy flour in them.
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    Some of the Tazo flavored teas contain gluten. "Natural flavorings" can contain ANYTHING. I just looked at their tazo.com website FAQ (today is June 1, 2011) and they claim their "natural flavoring" information is proprietary, "not something they can reveal," and that if people need to know the ingredients for allergies, they suggest that a flavor...
  9. Takala
    Taking a pill to try to counter act any of the reactions doesn't really deal with the cross contamination issue of restaurants that don't understand the concept, or are unwilling, to make something non allergenic or non reactive for the food - sensitive. I don't see why the original OP just doesn't buy some strawberries and a pint of coconut bliss and...
  10. Takala
    You should have your well water professionally tested to see if it has pathogens in it such as bacteria, or bad chemicals such as run off from farming or manufacturing, such as nitrates. In my state there can be chemicals such as perchlorate left over from the Cold War era missile testing, and mercury from the Gold Rush era gold mining extraction, besides...
  11. Takala
    Try taking a gluten free vitamin B complex, multivitamin, and calcium and magnesium. Cravings can be caused by vitamin/mineral imbalances as the body attempts to regulate these things in the blood. Also, try adding more good fats to your diet, such as coconut milk, olive oil, avocados. Fat is a slow burning fuel. You didn't mention eggs, if you can...
  12. Takala
    But the gut is supposed to expand and contract- if it didn't, we'd be in a serious world of trouble. Go shopping. Treat yourself, body shape changes are the perfect excuse. Longer loose tunic tops (ethnic) like out of the sixties are in style for casual for the summer. Finally! Could be worse. Could be late middle aged spread. Almost all women...
  13. Takala
    True story: we had to have our house interior telephone re wired several times because the mice kept eating the newer coating off the phone wiring in the crawl space and shorting it out. Finally the phone repair technician showed up triumphantly with a batch of the older style cable and said "this is going to fix them, they never bothered this old type in...
  14. Takala
    Celiac. Supporting the individual container, lunchbox, and portable ice cooler industry since 1995.
  15. Takala

    ARCHIVED Should I Get A 2Nd Opinion

    Takala replied to KikiUSA's topic in Doctors

    Would suggest you further research as to whether this physician has had any sort of disciplinary action or just to moved to your state, or has attended a legitimate medical degree dispensing higher educational school of learning. Good that the pharmacist caught it. Eleven years ago the FDA knew that the maker of this drug had a problem: Open...
  16. Takala
    Continue to strive towards a truly gluten free diet. Sooner or later you will get one of the "aha!" days when it's obvious that you feel really better. Be sure all vitamins and supplements are gluten free also. You may want to lay off the eating out for awhile until you figure out what the new normal is, and what you actually can and cannot eat....
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    I grind nuts in a blender all the time, just by putting in a 1/4 to a 1/2 cup at a time. It's an Oster Classic, and it's saved me a fortune in making nut flours. I pulse it a few times on high, and then whir it steadily a bit longer, it makes a nut meal pretty fast. I hope I don't jinx Old Reliable by praising it. I don't have any trouble baking...
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    Oh, that is bad. I'm sorry. Two years ago, for no known reason we had a horse get it. I got to watch the ultrasounds they did of his intestines. We were very lucky that we live within an hour of a really, really good equine vet clinic and that he responded to treatment when we took him there. They (veterinarians) assumed it that it might be of...
  19. Takala
    I am NOT a fan of probiotics for exactly the reason you just described but didn't connect, yet- you just started them, and you just regressed to feeling dizzy/fatigued and the pain is back. It's like my early reactions to what was SUPPOSED to be gluten free, very low lactose yogurt - I kept reacting to it and reacting to it, and finally ditched it...
  20. Takala
    The beginning of this thread is a year old. However.... Was listening to the television news this morning and they had a story about how if you used hand sanitizers at the rate that doctors and nurses are supposed to use them in a clinical setting, i.e., like over 4 times an hour, after several hours of this there's enough alcohol absorbed thru the...
  21. Takala
    You are doing it exactly right. You have food on hand that you can eat when you just need to eat. All the things you mentioned have gluten free substitutes that you can either purchase and keep in the freezer to thaw out when you need them, or you can learn to make gluten free breads that you can use when you are wanting something fresh. Some families...
  22. Takala

    ARCHIVED #*@($ !#*^% Doctor!

    Takala replied to thleensd's topic in Doctors

    :lol: Jergli Justified Extreme Rage @ Gluten Ignorant
  23. Takala
    Q. what do you do for neuropathy? A. eat a gluten free diet. I have the feeling back in my feet now after years of numbness. The only bad news is that my feet are not exactly the feet one would want to have anyway and now I can feel them.
  24. Takala
    Redding CA now has some source of gluten free foods ? Very good. Bonus. 2 gluten free recipes with story, one for gingersnaps, another for pad thai.
  25. Takala
    I wonder if the people setting up the (school food nutrition) guidelines realize that newest research shows a genetic link between celiac and type 1 diabetes. However, growing children need to eat a bit differently than adults, and a celiac may have a different carbohydrate needs than a type 1 diabetic who is taking insulin. Also, the article was not clear...
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