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The facebook page is now officially up. Gluten free Santa Barbara. still adding content, message me if you want me to add something and no I still can't get the picture the right size due to facebooks's layout change, there is no longer a resize photo button for page photos. Hopefully there will be one next update. The club is still unofficial, we haven...

Hi everyone, Been rather busy this quarter but we have some good news. There will be a club organized at UCSB sometime spring quarter. We are setting up a Facebook page in our free time and will post the link when we are ready. The club will be open to all people with allergies, since the pool of people with celiac disease at Santa Barbara is small...

I am finding it deeply ironic that of the 234 people who looked at this post according to the counter on the page as of when I started writing, of the half dozen celiacs at UCSB who have contacted me, two of which went to the trouble of tracking me down in the dorms to meet me in person, not one person has commented on this post. I have been contact by almost...

Hi Everyone, I am a student at UC Santa Barbara. I know that there are at least four other students with celiac disease living on campus and at least a dozen people in the general area with celiac disease. Out of 18,429 undergraduate and 2,981 graduate students by statistics there should be about 200 celiacs on campus. Does anyone else want to start...

I have had similar issues at UC Santa Barbara. I can eat many things on the menu, meats, dairy items, vegetables and fruit, but hardly any of the grain based dishes unless I bring in or make something myself, like when I made gluten free brownies for a social event last week. Many of the dishes can be made gluten free with simple substitutions. Such as...

Lares in Santa Monica, California is the best Mexican restaurant that I have been able to eat at. Be warned, its small and busy during the lunch hour so try to get there during the off times otherwise you will have a hard time getting you questions answered. I have been able to eat at Acapulco's, but you have to ask a lot of questions if you want to eat...

The fajitas at Acapulco are made with marinated meat, my dad has celiac disease too and got sick on the marinade once. They occasionally have unmarinated meat, or at least meat that is marinated with something that does not contain gluten. They are willing to cook it if you ask. My dad and I have eaten the fajitas numerous times since then, but only when...

You have to ask at this restaurant, The regular red salsa and tortilla chips are gluten free, the shreeded and picadillo beef tacos are too, everything else, ask ask and ask again. Many of the meats are marinated, some of these marinades are not gluten free, sometimes they have unmarinated meat they can cook, sometimes they only have marinated meat and you...

Speaking of soy from a material sciences standpoint, many varieties of soy need to be processed to be eaten, and unfortunately one of the cheaper ways to process Soy is by using a catalyst derived from wheat. If you are sensitive to wheat based products, you will react to soy processed in this manner. Other varieties are processed in gluten free ways and...

For people that are diagnosed very young, there is simply not enough time for major damage to occur. What doctors usually look for is the effect of cumulative damage, hence there is over a 90% false negative misdiagnosis rate in the US for people under 40, I got a false negative when I was a kid and got my growth stunted a bit, since I was eating wheat for...

I have an IgA deficiency, and I definitely can get allergies. The idea that people with IgA deficiency cannot get allergies is not supported by the national institute of health last time I checked. Your doctor could be basing that idea off research that was disproved a couple years back and he simply has not kept up to date. What you might be running...

I have had similar issues with dinning halls. At my school we have allergen information, but only if you ask for it. I ended up going to the kitchen and asking the chief what was in all the food on the menu. Some things that I thought were okay were not, and some that I thought were bad, I could eat. My college has set dining hall hours, I managed to...