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  1. Takala
    Another example, alas, of mushy "wishful thinking" on the topic. What's the difference between the U.S. and the United Kingdom ? Universal health care coverage. What happens when celiacs are actually diagnosed ? Fewer sick people. What sort of business was working against that concept of implementing universal health coverage...
  2. Takala
    I'd ditch the soy for "ecological and humanitarian" reasons way before I'd ditch the dairy ! Cows are solar powered, eat grass, hay, and take in sunshine and give us milk and beef and leather. If you want to make a difference, get after Congress to stop being so hostile to organic farming and smaller farms. Soy requires massive amounts of petrochemical...
  3. Takala
    Yogurt that was allegedly 'gluten free' got me so many times during the initial stages of the grain free diet I was on, I said to **** with it for a very long time. Meanwhile I could eat cheese with very few problems. I think a lot of these yogurt makers don't get all the lactose out, or add powdered milk or something else like it, as thickeners later in...
  4. Takala
    The lemon squares are to die for. The bagels are also very good. This is one of those "good thing it's a long drive" situations. We do have several stores in the Sacramento area and northern suburbs that carry some of their goodies, like the brownies, lemon squares, biscotti. In Cameron Park, in Eldorado County, (far side of Folsom Lake, east...
  5. Takala
    ______________ For a super- sensitive person, I doubt that it was truly "gluten free." To do that, the samples of those baked goods would have had to have been tested and verified to be at or below a certain ppm standard for gluten. It is really difficult to clean any sort of cooking area completely of gluten flour dust, no matter how conscientious...
  6. Takala
    Well, that's a bummer. I reacted recently to a bag of a certain kind of marked gluten free corn flour from Bob's, and it was a single grain type of deal with the quickbread, and it had to be that from what else I ate that day. I eat other forms of corn, so I was very annoyed. I do not know exactly what this is cc'd with, however. It could also...
  7. Takala
    If somebody who was a relative said that to me, I'd hope for their sake they caught me on a day when I had sparkle fairy dust flying off my tongue. It must be hard for glutenoids to be able to comprehend that we do have the "fun" concept down without having to eat out at a restaurant and having somebody else cook the meal.
  8. Takala
    I feel queasy just reading this. Vital wheat gluten is the inner part of the wheat kernel, which they process to put into bread mixes, etc, to make it chewier.
  9. Takala
    Fortunate to have the Raley's- Belaire chain in Northern CA which does have gluten free items, and puts most of them in a dedicated aisle with the rest of the "health food items" at least, and there is then only hunting it down in the organic specialty products, which is a lot easier, as they've got a lot of them clumped together. When the Whole Foods opened...
  10. Takala
    Try typing out the entire thing, you left out the ranges. Don't despair. Sometimes one is really sick and gets a false neg anyway. Sometimes not. If you feel better eating a certain way, you are allowed to do that.
  11. Takala
    A better way to test yourself would be to remove the suspected offending substance and see if you get better. Gluten reaction does not depend on the amount, it is more a cumulative affect of damage over time, of repeatedly prodding your immune system to go on the attack.
  12. Takala
    Almost anything you make from scratch will STILL be cheaper than store bought, commercially made gluten free breads. Most of them use a lot of rice flour, you can customize your bread to have more protein, by adding different ingredients such as buckwheat, nut meals, quinoa, teff, amaranth, garbanzo bean, millet, sorghum etc, so you will be trading nutrition...
  13. Takala
    The actual benefit of a formal diagnosis... In Europe, this can get you forms of help with finding gluten free groceries. Also, if your child were to become sick, that diagnosis is already ruled out, so it must be something else. In the US, this can help if your child is going to school and needs an excuse from An Authority Figure on why your school...
  14. Takala
    Glad that you found a type of cracker that will work for you ! Nescafe Taster's Choice is the best instant coffee, and having it be gluten free is just the best coincidence anyone could hope for. You can put some canned coconut milk into it and make your own flavored coffees with your own spices, it's very good and the coconut milk is very soothing. Most...
  15. Takala
    They are great, aren't they ? Before they put in a large grocery with a gluten free aisle in town which is about 13 miles away, I was commuting up to the larger town in the next county to go to their Winco, which had enough gluten free items to get us by that I only had to hit the specialty health food store about once a month. I still will go there to...
  16. Takala
    Ah, you see, this is an example of why I was going on a bit passionately, over in the publications section, about the spokesperson for a certain group, who was speaking as a dietician with some expertise, saying that gluten intolerant people could eat as much as they could physically handle, when combined with the statements of one of the best researchers...
  17. Takala
    I think there's a chance you're getting cross contaminated from something else. You don't have pets, do you ? Unless they are on gluten free food, they can be a real vector. BBQ briquettes ? Mouthwash ? Rolling papers ? I hear you on the super sensitives saying they can eat out a lot with no problems, or eat stuff from shared lines...
  18. Takala

    ARCHIVED F'ed Up Doctor Appt Today

    Takala replied to CruiseWriter's topic in Doctors

    (fair warning- I'm part Irish descent. Remember which northern European tribe has the highest % of the DQ 2.5???? ) All this psychiatrist talk reminds me of the following quote, from one of the greatest and funniest autobiographies of modern times: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood...
  19. Takala
    This was an excellent article. The author did an outstanding job with the interviews, too. It also had 2 good gluten-free recipes at the end, one for chickpea flatbread, another for teff/pumpkin muffins. KC Star has had good food writing for decades, now. I have old recipes from their regular files that I've converted over to gluten free.
  20. Takala
    I looked at the Elana Amsterdam cupcake recipe and want to know if anybody else thinks this is missing something: Open Original Shared Link Hello, there is no acidic like vinegar to activate the baking soda, no vanilla in the vanilla batter, and no salt in the cake batters, either..... ~_~_~_~ The Brown Rice crust for quiche at the...
  21. Takala
    Oh, that's okay, that's a typical diet for a female before we get sick on it. You seem to be a bit low on the green vegetables there. So you're eating a low fat breakfast, and running out of energy before noon, eating some fruit, some more carbs and protein, and then by midafternoon, must have a hit of sugar and chocolate. Then eating...
  22. Takala
    I have a rather spectacular contact reaction to a certain kind of grass hay. (of course, this is one of the only kinds of grass hay that our horse with allergies can eat. ) I wear long sleeves (obviously) when I handle it. Then I take off the overshirt or jacket, and wash my hands. If for some reason I've bare armed it, I immediately try to head for the...
  23. Takala
    Inquiring minds want to know ?! Was it, "so, is oxalate in wheat ?"
  24. Takala
    Oh, God. Don't remind me. Before gluten free, my kidneys' mission was to take calcium where ever it could find it, like out of my bones, run it around the bloodstream to try to fix the levels, and make sure it eventually got deposited in the wrong place. And Tums
  25. Takala
    Big belly symptom ? Yes. Nosebleeds ? Could be. All your other symptoms..... sounds familiar.
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