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    Glad to know this!
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    Doctors (and the medical tests they use) don't know everything. It was just a very short 60 years ago that the polio vaccine was developed. Heck, bloodletting was still in use in the 20th century! Listen to your body...it knows...
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    FYI...dietary cholesterol--eating meat and eggs--has nothing to do with serum cholesterol levels.
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    (Love your kitty! Mine sits like that on the exercise bike!)
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    I hear this type of thing all the time from my mom...I've read some good analogies on this forum but can't remember them this morning. Fellow Celiacs and Gluten-Intolerants...what say you?!
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    Just so you're aware...there is a big difference between losing weight on the scale and actually losing fat. It is physically impossible to lose 5 pounds of fat in 4 days. Whenever you see quick weight loss it almost always water. To lose one pound of fat in one day you need to run a 3500 calorie deficit...meaning if you eat 1500 calories, you need to...
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    I've been gluten-free--essentially with a few potential CC incidents--for almost 5 weeks. The first 10 days or so I felt better--overall, but this past week has been awful; heart palpitations, fatigue, chills, brain fog, depression. Anyone feel worse before they felt better?
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    I think I've seen Mark's Daily Apple referenced here once or twice. It's a website that focuses on paleo style food which is truly just real food with emphasis on eating grass fed beef/animals/protein, healthy fats, vegetables and fruits, and dairy. Mark Sisson is very, very anti-grain so most of what he promotes is gluten-free--but his program is not gluten...
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    The thing is, I think I did get sick. I felt nauseous most of the weekend and a little feverish--also I very cranky and mentally dull. I thought it was the flu but now wonder.... My thought on cheating...hypertension is a very dangerous disease that has few if any symptoms until you die of a stroke or heart attack. If you are dx celiac and don't follow...
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    I was at my brother's for Christmas weekend and his well-meaning wife told me that Bugles corn chips were gluten-free. As her father has been gluten-free for over a decade and she is familiar with gluten-free lifestyle, I trusted her. She even made me Betty Crocker gluten-free brownies. So I just went grocery shopping and picked up a bag of Bugles at...
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    Thank-you! That is what I thought but just wasn't sure!
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    Question: If someone is not celiac, or gluten-sensitive or intolerant, and goes off of gluten for a month and then eats gluten and has a reaction, is that indicative of some level of intolerance? Or would a 'normal' person have a reaction just due to the reintroduction of a different type of food? I am in the process of self-diagnosis...don't have...
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    Funny! I'm an alcoholic and my sister asked me if I quit drinking completely?! Like I could have one small glass and be fine!
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    Sorry it took me so long to find this. This is the article that links high calcium to celiac:

    High Parathyroid Hormone Levels in Patients with Intestinal Absorption Problems, Such as:

    Gastric Bypass Surgery, and Celiac Sprue, and Crohn's Disease.

    There is a growing group of patients who have dramatic life-long problems absorbing calcium in their diet. These patients are...

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    I was hoping this thread was truly about a good friend! So often we have to put up with friends and family that just don't 'get it' and some that won't even try. I too have a wonderful friend! She had a Christmas party last Saturday night and was very concerned that there wouldn't be enough gluten-free treats for me--there was, and she also made a lovely...
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    Thanks for all your replies. My point with this thread was that the first few steps of any 12-step programs may be helfpul to some in coping with this diagnosis--acceptance and seeking help through a spiritual process. Or maybe The Eliszbeth Kubler-Ross modelof the five stages of grief...denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance??! Have...
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    A positive response as a diagnostic tool! Not only does that make perfect sense but it is used all the time. In fact, the true mechanism of action--how it works--in most pharmaceutical drugs in unknown. In a very simplified way, it is hit and miss process. Rogaine (rx to treat baldness) was originally develope to treat hypertension. And if it's not necessarily...
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    I know I am and I've only been gluten-free for three weeks...however, I've followed a low-carb diet for over a year. This website has loads of ideas and while it is a low-carb website, many of the recipes can be easily altered to be gluten-free. If nothing else it can give you a few ideas... Open Original Shared Link
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    I didn't read all of the replies so I apologize if I'm repeating but make sure you eat fat!! Fat has gotten such a bad rap in the past and it is not warranted. Also, another misconception is that a diet high in protein can damage your kidneys--not true. A high protein diet is only harmful to your kidneys if you ALREADY have kidney disease...
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    Thank-you...I have a found a great group of people through AA and also an online support group of women through Women for Sobriety which is actually a 13 Statement approach specifically for women. It saved my life.
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    Like many, I have had a complicated, difficult, but also glorious life. At 16, I had my first drink of alcohol--stealing into my parent's stash for a shot of liquid courage before a park dance. Within a year I was drinking every weekend, smoking cigarettes (and other dried organic products), and starting down a path of addiction which included bouts...
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    I like to use analogies...and I while allergy is not quite accurate, for many uneducated, non-celiacs, it makes sense. Tell your family that while some people are allergic to peanuts, you are allergic to wheat. You get sick if you eat it. Ask them if they would give booze to an alcoholic? It's not quite the same thing, but you get the picture...
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    I'm having the same problem...and I'm from a small town and we don't have Outback, PF Chang's, Chili's, etc!! I'd have to drive 75 miles one way to find a good gluten-free restaurant...
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    There are good docs and not-so-good-docs...and it's not always intentional. For too many years we put doctors on pedestals and assumed they were always right and we did what they told us to do. Unfortunately, or fortunately (!) the human body is a very complex thing. In my very humble opinion, 100 years from now we may very well look back on on medical...
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    Baked my first spaghetti squash tonite and served it with bolognese sauce. Mmmm...spaghetti without the wheat flour!
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