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Hi! I'm a grad student living in Florida with a brand-new diagnosis of celiac and a compulsion to seek out information about it. I live with a wonderful non-celiac partner and our dogs and cats. I'm definitely a rookie at this gluten-free thing, but I have long been interested in health and nutrition, so even though I'm sad about not getting to eat delicious bread anymore, I'm excited to learn even more about this healthy lifestyle!

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    Hi! I was wondering if you ever found a group in Gainesville or started one up. If not would you still be interested?

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    I've heard it's just as bad as high fructose corn syrup in terms of the impact it has on your blood sugar, that it isn't really any healthier. In addition, the processing of it can be just as destructive as HFCS. So, if I were you, I'd just use what you think tastes the best, because agave, sugar, and HFCS are all about the same in terms of their effects...
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    I work out all the time, and did whatever I wanted, and it was fine. Don't worry about abdominal exercises. If they're bothering you, get your core workout from other things (planks, squats, etc - lower body exercises in general work the core really hard, as do cardio workouts like spinning and swimming). I didn't have any problems, though.
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    I'm glad you found so many ice creams with clear labels. The difference for me is that by listing "skim milk" and "cream" separately, I can tell that it will be higher in lactose. Cream has so little that I can handle it, but skim milk is loaded with lactose. Sometimes the seventh ingredient is a stabilizer I'm not especially interested in consuming. I agree...
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    Since amino acids are the building blocks of protein, I'd be suspicious.
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    Me too! Have you tried the Hagen Dasz "Five Ingredients" style? We got the ginger flavor and it knocked my socks off. It almost tastes spicy. And it's obviously gluten-free, with no fillers or anything fake. A quarter of a cup was all I really needed because the taste was so satisfying. I eat ice cream like twice a year, too - it has to be really good for...
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    Just FYI, if anyone cares: this stuff is TERRRRRRRIBLE for you. It's all synthetic chemicals, there's no "food" there. The sugar alcohols alone would give me such a horrible stomach ache that I'd be climbing the walls. I got a pack of the dressings to take to restaurants and yowza, is that ever not worth it. Sugar alcohols bother some people more than others...
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    I agree, it would be on the label. I just wonder if there's something about the over-processing required for enrichment that bugs her. I don't do well at all with processed foods, never have.
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    I don't know how the enrichment process works with Minute rice, but I do know that enriched foods tend to be pretty terrible for you. "Enriched" means they stripped out all the nutrients in processing, and then inserted them back in as stabilizers/preservatives, but they aren't nutrients you can absorb, because they wouldn't survive the heating process, let...
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    Are you eating any foods (or chewing gum) that contains sugar alcohols, like xylitol or sorbitol (there are others, I believe they all end in -tol)? Sugar alcohols will mess up the balance in your large intestine and causes that rumbling in me every time I have them. I cut them out of my diet altogether, and the rumbling stopped. Look for sugar-free versions...
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    My sister in law got me 1000 Gluten Free Recipes for Christmas, and I love it. It has a nice wide variety of foods and the recipes are easy to manage. It's available on the gluten-free mall site.
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    I think they're victim to soy sauce as well. At least that's what they told me at the sushi place down the street.
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    Oh, and masago is NOT gluten-free, at least any place where I get sushi.
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    Hey, David! I eat sushi all the time too. Other people may have additional tips, but I've found you have to avoid fake crab (I don't know about you, but it's the only kind of "crab" the sushi places anywhere near me have, and I live in Florida), roe, and eel sauce (and some other sauces, depending on how they're made). Also, marinated vegetables are usually...
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    I've been riding my whole life too, and teaching lessons since forever. Inevitably, some idiot ten year olds will decide they want to see what horse feed tastes like. Make sure she knows horse feed has gluten in it so she knows why she has to wash up regularly and can't participate in the group horse-feed-tasting challenge.
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