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  1. bartfull
    I don't know. When friends of mine had cancer one of the things their doctors stressed was getting good nutrition so they would have a stronger immune system to fight it. Also, wasting is one of the big problems with cancer so it would make sense that you need good nutrition to prevent or at least hold off that wasting. Also, I firmly believe that many...
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    I never even heard of freshwater prawns before. I'm thinking I probably wouldn't like them because I don't like freshwater fish, don't like crawdads, don't even like freshwater mussels. But that's neither here nor there. I would think that if there is wheat in the water they swim in, then you cooked them and THEN peeled them, some of the water with the wheat...
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    Gemini, that was my attempt at a bad joke. I am a smoker and when my friends start nagging me to quit I always pull out that alzheimers thing. Actually, for a while they thought it was true but new studies have refuted it. But it's fun to tell my nagging friends that although I may get lung cancer someday, it's better than getting alzheimers.
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    Reminds me of cigarettes. They say people who smoke have a lower chance of getting alzheimers. Something about the way blood vessels react to nicotine. But I think it's probably because smokers don't live long enough to get it.
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    Just my opinion, but shortcuts don't cut it. When you are new to the diet you may find yourself reacting to lots of different foods for no good reason. My advice would be to stick to a very limited diet for a couple or few weeks just to get your immune system to settle down. Two or three weeks goes by pretty quickly. If you stick to just plain cooked meat...
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    Yep, it's withdrawal. It should be over soon.
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    I had to go completely organic for a while at first. Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, whatever it was, it was bothering me because I hadn't healed and my immune system was reacting to almost everything. After a few months I was able to go back to grocery store produce, but I still buy organic whenever possible. I just can't see the sense in eating fruits...
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    I like both, but if there could only be one kind of doughnut in the world, I would vote for a plain cake doughnut. NOTHING is better dunked into coffee. (Although I always ask for a second cup just for dunking. That way my other cup of plain black coffee doesn't get contaminated with sweetness.) When I worked at doughnut shops (I've worked at a couple...
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    ACTUAL doughnuts? Cake doughnuts are real doughnuts too. I know you are referring to raised doughnuts, but think about a true French cruller. Those are cake doughnuts and they're delicious with all of those crunchy crusty little nubbins. Dunk's makes both kinds of doughnuts - cake and raised. I don't know what the new gluten-free one is, but I'd guess...
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    Gemini, I respectfully disagree with you on both points. NPR is the ONLY radio station I listen to. In depth news from several sources, including the BBC, great music - my station plays classical in the morning, jazz on weeknights, folk, rock and blues on the weekends. They even have a program devoted to Big Band - there's nothing to lift my mood like a little...
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    Cross contamination. Eating in restaurants. That's all I can think of right now.
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    Addy, as you are probably aware, a lot of times that lightning will hit a tree and the tree will smolder for a day or two before it starts the fire. That has happened here so many times - we get a storm on Tuesday and the fire doesn't get going until Wednesday or Thursday. (Keep you ears open and stay safe.) The idiot with the fireworks - I understand...
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    No Whole Foods near me but I know a lot of you shop there. Open Original Shared Link
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    Canyon Bakehous San Juan 7-Grain. Hands down, the best gluten-free bread I have ever had. Tastes similar to Rudi's but it doesn't fall apart. If you liked those multi-grain breads in the grocery stores that have all those nutty little bits in them, you will love Canyon Bakehouse. It is BETTER than the gluteny ones. And if you ARE looking for a dessert...
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    The water here is also EXTREMELY hard. But a lot of people have RO systems under their sinks. It is totally different from those filters you put on your faucet and totally different from a water softener. Most people I know have had theirs for years and depending on how much water you use, you only have to change the membranes once a year or less. The grocery...
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    "Years ago when I was young (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth)" Ah, just a youngster. When I was young all there was were single cell protozoa!
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    I FROZE an egg on the sidewalk one winter... We haven't been too bad here - yet. It's in the low 90's now after weeks of mid-80's. Our hottest time of year is usually end of July and into August. That's when things dry out too. After all of the rain we have had this spring and summer things are really green. The trouble is, all that does is make fuel...
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    The last few years I lived in New England I couldn't take it anymore. The heat and humidity never bothered me THAT much before, but those last few years I literally thought I was going to lose my mind. I was passing out from it, sick to my stomach, and an absolute raving maniac! One night I even turned the A/C to its coldest temp and took every fan in the...
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    You are NOT a hypochondriac!!! Auto-immune diseases DO tend to run together, and celiac disease definitely runs in families. That is why anyone who tests positive should tell all first degree relatives to get tested. Your symptoms sound celiac. Your family history indicates celiac. If you want to get tested, you need to keep eating gluten until testing...
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    Well, when I was a kid my favorite foods besides soft boiled eggs was Mom's home made bread and her home made doughnuts. I also could never get enough corn on the cob. Oh yeah, and blueberries that we would pick in the woods across the road from our house. Now I can still eat the eggs but none of the other things. As I got older I kind of lost my taste...
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    Other than coffee, water is all I drink. I had good well water when I lived in Connecticut, but out here the water is so full of minerals that not only does it taste bad, but if you make coffee with it twice, your coffee maker will be plugged up. I drink RO water now and it's good. Right now I buy it at the grocery store but someday I will get a system installed...
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    Most (if not all) caramel color in this country is derived from corn.
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    Have you been tested for lyme or other tick-borne diseases?
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    Ana, it COULD be celiac, or it could be non-celiac gluten intolerance. It could be something else entirely. If you want to get tested you need to be eating gluten. If testing isn't important to you you could just try the gluten-free diet and see if your symptoms improve. A week isn't long enough to see any results so don't let that discourage you. If I remember...
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    Also, what happened last year in Colorado Springs - wildfire spreading right into the "city" - would happen everywhere there were a forest fire if these guys just let it burn. In 2007 a wildfire almost took out the entire town I live in. As it was, 33 families lost their homes and one man lost his life. They had already started evacuating the elderly residents...
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