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  1. GermanMia
    Ali - no, my doctor didn't try the SCD herself (it's a lady) - she is so busy she hardly seems to have time to sleep at all - starts at 7.30 in the morning and leaves at about ten in the evening... She admits that she has no time to busy herself with dietary issues - but she told me she thought my approach was reasonable so I#d do what I think is good for...
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    Dawn - if you buy the book BTVC, buy the one with the supplement "The Celiac Story". In that supplement Elaine points out that in the early stages of discovering reasons for celiac in children the idea was to remove all grains and starches. Only later scientific research found out about gluten and reactions to gluten and they limited the diagnosis celiac...
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    Hi Ali, in some way I did try. At the age of 14 (24 years ago) I already had huge problems - nausea after everything I eat except raw fruit, veggies, natural yoghurt and peanuts. It was a difficult tiime, too, because my father was very ill and my mom got alcoholic, so I was fed up one day with being upset with my mom and having nausea all the time above...
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    Hi Dawn, if you already take an antihistamine, it's not very likely that your reactions are caused by histamine intolerance. Not impossible, but usually an antihistamine should suppress reactions to histamine. So it might be what is said about leaky gut: that you show random reactions to everything now and then and can't predict the reactions. And this...
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    My naturopth explained that because of a leaky gut the body developes pseudo-allergies with random symptoms which you never can predict. Actually that histamine intolerance is kind of pseudo-allergy, too. So that should go away as soon as the gut heals, I suppose. Maybe there are people more sensitive to histamine than others who just have to avoid those...
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    Dawn, I have no clue how it is in the states but here in Germany don't seem to be many general practitioners who know about any kind of food intolerance / allergy. It was not my GP but the GI he sent me to who had this idea. My hubby is a physician, too, and he phoned the GI to find out if she's fit. First thing she said was I should test for lactose, fructose...
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    Hi DMarie, it's like Ali said - food industry programmed our software for things which nature didn't create us for. I can assure you that I've been addicted to whole grain bread my whole life. If anyone had told me I had to go grain free, I probably would have run after him with my longest kitchen knife... I LOVED dark chocolate and I hated cooked carrots...
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    Ali, I didn't use store bought yoghurt until now because they either contain bifidobacteria or the bacteria aren't specificated. Our local superstore happens to offer Total Greek yoghurt since september I think, but the bacteria there weren't specificated either. So I used starter cultures from the organic food shop which contain streptococcus salivarius...
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    Hi Kim, if you can tell me exactly where you will go I'll be able to find out about eating out there. How sensitive are you to gluten? I know that some celiacs can tolerate chocolate which says "may contain traces of gluten" but some even get sick with those traces. There is chocolate which is declared to be gluten free, though. Do you prefer dark chocolate...
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    Sherry, good that you're getting better finally!! Shay and Ali, the coconut flour is made from the pulp which remains after pressing the oil out of the flesh, so it's mostly fibres and protein. I always mistrusted the coconuts sold here because when I once bought one it turned out very old and tasted disgusting. But that's more than 20 years ago, so...
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    FigGirl, you're right about the pb cookie recipe - it contains one egg, not ghee or butter... But I think I'll give it a try with ghee instead of egg. Shay, maybe it's because the coconut flour is defatted - that means it's extremely rich in fibre which might trouble your digestive System. Normally you don't have such an amount of fibre in coconut at...
  12. GermanMia
    Just found this: www.honeybigbee.com/ The recipes contain some egg free desserts (applesauce banana muffins, pumpkin pudding, fruitcake)
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    That sounds difficult. I do hope for you that it will become more clear. The whole situation in China seams to be an ecological desaster, as far as I get it here. Is the milk safe at least? Shay, If you prefer sweet for breakfast: carrots fried with honey in a skillet are very yummy.
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    Hi Shay and Ali, of course you can use whatever nut flour you have on hand. The pecan flour just makes the stuff more brownie-like because it's very dark. I think using almond flour will make it taste a lot like marzipan ArtGirl, I found that it's better to decrease the amount of flour when using coconut flour, not increasing the liquid or fat...
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    Thanks, FigGirl! As I mostly don't drink anything except water, I never look at drink recipes... should do that next time Sherry, that sounds great! I think I'll try that, too. Shay and ArtGirl: EGGLESS BROWNIES-pecan flour 3 cups Pecan Flour 2 pears (peeled and cored) 1/4 cup ghee (you can use butter or coconut butter) 1 tsp baking...
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    chatycady, no, it isn't. Last winter was a very mild winter here so that the grains that dropped by harvesting the corn could sprout uncontrolled. Shay, I don't eat kimchi because it's far too hot for me - I tried it once at a Korean friend's and I couldn't stop weeping for hours But I know that traditionally kimchi is kind of Korean sauerkraut...
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    Sherry, thanks about the honey. Anyway - whatever it is, I can tolerate modest amounts of it, so I'm just happy as it is No, I didn't mean the results concerning celiac - that was diagnosed more than one year ago already, so I'm gluten free since august 2007. But as the problems didn't get better but worse being gluten free, there has to be something...
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    Thanks, ArtGirl I also came to the conclusion not to go back to grains - not even gluten free grains. It's no more than a month now that I'm on SCD, and I don't think that a whole life long damage will be vanished after six weeks. So if I get an appointment in two or so weeks, there should be still enough damage to see... Paula, there are great...
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    Hi ArtGirl, glad you like the porridge - and yes, it's fantastic with yoghurt, too! Absolute comfort food for cold days. I thought about the grains, yes, and at the moment I'm discussing with myself whether I should eat them again before I have the appointment with the GI or not. I already know the celiac for sure, so that's not necessary. Actually...
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    You don't frighten, Ali. You're right. We have an experimental GM corn field nearby - placed directly beside the fields of an organic farmer's!!! My dr. whom I saw today is a spare-time beekeeper and he doesn't laugh at all about these GM fields. By the way I told him about the SCD I'm on and he found it sounded reasonable and very healthy. But - and that...
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    Hi Sherry and Ali, thanks for the apple cider / juice info. Usually I don't like apple juice or cider but a friend of ours who is a hunter gave us some game which I wanted to make an apple cider stew of. It's a British recipe, Ali , so it indeed had to be the alcoholic kind I think I'll try to do it with the American kind - the alcohol would cook away...
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    New question: I found that "apple cider" is legal - what is meant by apple cider?? In German apple cider is something containing alcohol (2 to 4 percent). I don't think that's what is meant? Is it the freshly made apple juice in the pre-alcoholic stage? Unfiltered apple juice? We do have this kind of natural style apple juice but also filtered and pasteurized...
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    Ali, I love Naomi's site, too! Her story how she came to SCD sounds pretty much like my own... I'm totally addicted to the pumpkin pie porridge - instead of almond flour I add two tbsp of coconut flour which tastes wonderful. Sherry, perhaps you try that pumpkin pie porridge first if you want to try squash? It's without eggs and honey, just pumpkin,...
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    Ali, I'm pretty sure that those beasties are the reason for not getting satisfied. In the beginning I never had the feeling to be full either. I do feel full now sometimes but get hungry again soon after. Very often I still feel weak and somewhat empty, like a car without fuel. Or maybe hollow is the right word. But if I listen to my body there is a clear...
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    Ali, maybe it's easier to have salads when you mix them with something warm. I'm a southerner - my dad came from Romania - and so I'm freezing with any temperatur which is below 25 degrees celsius So I figured out that I'm happy with salads to which I add something cooked: fried mushrooms, for example, or grilled chicken or shrimp, baked pumpkin... At...
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