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  1. Takala
    Try eating a bit more "good" fats and proteins, less "white" carbs and starches, and adding a calcium/magnesium/D mineral supplement and a gluten free vitamin supplement with the B complex. Fats can be used to satiate hunger, and they provide a slow burning fuel, and when combined with the proteins will not spike your blood sugars, so you don't get into...
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    You may be one of those people with more than the average number of taste buds, aka a "supertaster," so you taste things differently than a normal person. You also seem to be sensitive to textures. Sorry about that. I know you said you hate to cook, so you want to go the smoothie route, but if you do 2 fruit and vegetable smoothies a day, you are going...
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    It may be some mild costochondritis , an inflammation of the softer connective tissue holding the rib cage together. Open Original Shared Link There are some forms of arthritis where this is more common, and to say it is painful when it flares up is an understatement. Sometimes I still get a very slight twinge of it when I have eaten a bit more carefree...
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    Starbucks serves Tazo tea in their tea bags selections. Some of the Tazo Tea flavors did have gluten per the Tazo FAQ on the Tazo website. The Tazo website has been massively overhauled since the last time I checked it. I am seeing many herbal tea blends listed with the generic "natural flavorings" ingredient. In the USA, a natural flavoring as of 2...
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    I was afraid of this. It looks like they are going to go with the International Codex standards, and we are going to end up with imported "gluten free" foods made of codex wheat starch at 20ppm or less, theoretically, with it all being perfectly legal. Are not these labels to be done on a voluntary basis by the manufacturers, so there is not going to be...
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    Unfortunately, all the Bob's Red Mill flours are cross contaminated with their gluten free oats, because they are processed in the same mill. This means if you are sensitive to oats, as a minority of celiacs/gluten intolerants are, even sensitive to gluten free oats, you will react to many of their products. While I will purchase their gluten-free oats...
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    Where do they find these people ? No, really, is this a licensed medical professional, or a registered dietician, what state, what affiliation ? Don't have to give a name, just curious. Do they promote a vegan diet, in general ? There are some real whack-a-doodles running around the internet right now, and they're hooked into the various...
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    "Why" this happens, no one has actually come up with an explanation for it yet, but it is a real phenomena. On the surface, your diet "looks" great for a typical celiac who is a male and hungry, with no additional food intolerances. But for some of us sensitive ones, that sort of diet, especially for beginners, with the sugary desserts, the dairy, the soy...
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    Nope. Not with the "persistent anemia, low B12, peripheral neuropathy, concentration problems, and severe migratory joint pain" - you are at least 99.99% probable to have damage to the lining of your small intestines. What happens is, that over time, people with real "gluten problems" who go off of gluten tend to become more sensitive to exposure to...
  10. Takala
    Stevia sweetened yogurt with a dash of nutmeg and vanilla works ......
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    If all the other stuff that got better with me,( since I had such bad ataxia and neuropathy,) post switching to a gluten free diet, meant that I still ended up gaining weight, I'll still take the trade, any day, because I can do so much more now, even if I've gone up a few sizes. Of course, I'm over twice your age, and at this stage, I don't really care...
  12. Takala
    The blow-back begins: Open Original Shared Link Aspartame in Milk petition sparks thousands of angry comments to the FDA Consumer group, SumOfUs, has a counter petition up with over 93,000 signatures already, saying no artificial sweeteners unlabeled in milk. And if you want to "share the love," and see the scathing comments people are...
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    I don't know the "technical" reason but my dentist(s) and orthodontist told me my lower jaw is arthritic, and kept growing past the time it should, relative to the fixed upper jaw, so it is pressing outwards on the teeth in the upper jaw, and that is also why I can't open my mouth quite as far as a normal person. I know when my adult teeth came in it was...
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    You can do workouts on a low carb diet, if you add enough properly timed fat consumption in, but it depends on how your body works and burns. If you're low carb, or low grain, you just make sure to snack on that fat source BEFORE the exercise session by about 15 minutes to a half hour, minimum, adding in some sort of fruit and protein. Peanut butter works...
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    I found the Strawberry and the Apple Glutino "pop tart" pastries at a northern CA Whole Foods. And I am in so much trouble, because the one flavor I just ate, the apple cinnamon, is much better than I expected for a gluten free pastry, it is not rock hard like a traditional pop tart, and it is actually tender, and the filling is not cloying, but partially...
  17. Takala
    Did somebody say "smushed?" https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/100165-instant-mayonnaise-spread-from-avocado/
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    Hon, if it is a gluten reaction, even if you tested "negative," it is going to make you more sensitive to a lot of these other foods. What you are describing is somewhat mimicking an ongoing inflammation problem of arthritis I have with the connective tissues and my bones, which I control the symptoms of, by eating a strict diet. It does not "cure" it,...
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    I could speculate, but........ I am not a licensed medical professional, medical researcher, nor a public relations spokesperson. Acute food poisoning can occur after non gluten exposure, too !
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    Some thoughts: Have you tried pre- soaking the legume flour or pancake mixture in water with safe vinegar or acidic juice (sans the baking powder/soda) overnight ? Can you use soaked chia seed as a gelling agent ? I've been experimenting with sugar free, stevia sweetened buckwheat pancakes. The good news is that I can make them with only buckwheat...
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    That's a good question ! Because I've seen it elsewhere. The part that I bolded, in the first quote, the (questionable) claim that only 50% of celiacs heal, can be found on this site, the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center, FAQ page "Why do I need a cure when I can simply eat a gluten free diet." Open Original Shared Link "The...
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    Here we freaking go again. Now in USA Today. This marketing group, "NPD" did a survey of 1000 adults back in January. Open Original Shared Link And now they are trotted out to say STUPID THINGS when someone wants to point to a gluten free diet as a "fad." (here is another article in Forbes.com from 5/23/11 which quoted NPD Marketing's "Diet Monitor...
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    Tom drives a bus like my husband tries to navigate from the passenger's side with one of those dreadful mobile phone apps and satellite devices, he can be pretending to look at email or textmessages one minute and the next, just as you are going past something screams "WAIT TURN THERE !" whether or not "there" is really supposed to be a turn. ...
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    You are going to be wishing you had that blood test panel for celiac, later, so why don't you take that list and get it done now ? Very simple, they just take a blood draw. Typically, they won't do a biopsy without the positive blood results, so you won't be obligated further unless you have symptoms... oh, wait, you DO have symptoms, what are you waiting...
  25. Takala
    You will know by how you feel, since anxiety itself is one of the symptoms of celiac. You should feel more confident about the entire gluten free "food situation" as time goes on. Oh, and the lab results, that too.
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