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  1. Nancym
    I've redoubled my efforts. I'm having a hard time staying away from peanuts and peanut butter though. I've managed to trim my coffee consumption down to 2 cups a day (a small miracle I might add, I was heavily addicted). My gut is doing SO much better.
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    Autoimmune diseases are really hard to diagnose a lot of the time. Some of them take dozens of years before they're diagnosed. I suspect a lot of people have an autoimmune disease that are never diagnosed. I remember watching one Mystery Diagnosis where a woman with Behcets took 17 years to get a diagnosis. Probably it takes getting to a fairly acute...
  3. Nancym
    I'm not Cara but let me turn this around and ask you a question. Dr. Fine reports a very high correlation of people who have "gluten sensitivity" > than the cut-off point he defined and people who reportedly have relief of their symptoms once going gluten free. He also has tracked the negatives, some of which went gluten-free and found that most of them...
  4. Nancym
    These stories are hilarious. It reminds me of a time I was taking karate class and I did a kick and a pair of underwear that had been caught in the pants in the dryer, came flying out the end of the pant leg.
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    He has lecture notes on his site about gluten antibodies. Basically they go down, but very very slowly. And it does require very good adherence. Hmmm... just to turn things around on you. Why would you believe that your body would forget about one protein being a foreign invader (lets say casein) before another? In another discussion (autoimmune...
  6. Nancym
    I'm pointing out the obvious here but someone has to do it! Natural doesn't always mean harmless. Dr. Mecola is very interested in inspiring fear, uncertainty and doubt in order to get you to buy his products. While not everything on his web site is utter BS, IMHO, a lot of it is. Or is at least somewhat tainted with the FUD factor. Personally, I prefer...
  7. Nancym
    Let me tell you, this is something I'm striving for too. I personally think the diet we're evolved to thrive on is very different from the one most people are eating today. Click the link on "The Paleo Diet" to get an idea. But basically my diet is concentrated around meat, fish, poultry, eggs, vegetables, nuts and fruits. A few deviations from that,...
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    In preindustrial ages they refined sugar like this: Clarify the cane juice Boil it down into a thick syrup to concentrate and crystallize the sucrose Drain off the impurity-laden syrup (molasses) Washing the remaining syrup from the crystals Sounds innocent? Well... the cane stalks were first crushed and pressed and the resulting juice was heated...
  9. Nancym
    "Brown sugars are sucrose crystals that are coated with a layer of dark syrup from one or another stage of sugar refining [aka molasses]." According to my book of all cooking knowledge (On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee). Most of the sugar produced in the US/Europe is from beets.
  10. Nancym
    Don't you have a "clean-out" before hand? You don't have to take the horrible purging stuff?
  11. Nancym
    Actually you might just feel better giving up the gluten. And what a wonderful way of supporting your hubby! I saw, give it a shot!
  12. Nancym
    I can't help you with that, but I just went off on a flight of fancy thinking about your trip. Sounds wonderful!
  13. Nancym
    Yow, are they talking RAI and surgery already? Graves often goes into remission and you don't need to treat it. Basically what they do is suppress the thyroid with drugs and wait it out. If you're going gluten-free then you that will probably help too. I know of someone who claimed she ate lots and lots of goitrogenic foods and it made her Graves go into...
  14. Nancym
    Yeah, that doesn't sound good. My book says ice is very important for fish. It lasts twice as long at 32' and refrigerators don't get that cold. Freezer is too cold. "In general, well iced fatty saltwater fish -- salmon, herring, mackerel, sardine--will remain edible for about a week, lean cold-water fish--code, sole, tuna, trouble--about two...
  15. Nancym
    I think you don't have to really get into the details, just say you're allergic to wheat. People have all kinds of allergies and deal with it without any fuss.
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    There's very little truth in that web site. You're being manipulated by the sugar industry. Open Original Shared Link
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    I make ghee from butter. I'm hoping I get all the casein proteins out. It really is delicious stuff! Changing my diet was a bummer at first, but now I look at it as a fun challenge. I do enjoy cooking and I've expanded my repetoire into new cuisines, like Thai. I use interesting ingredients instead of milk, coconut milk. My latest invention.....
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    I'm reading a book called "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee. Lots of science-y stuff in there. Anyway, various types of fish can be kept longer than others. Vacuum sealing and keeping them on ice can extend the shelf-life into the range of weeks for some varieties.
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    Have you actually read Dr. Fine's research? I like to think that I was given a good, sharp analytical mind so that I could think things through for myself, especially when the quality of medical care is pretty spotty. Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link He has published in the past and he expects to publish his results...
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    Yeah, it would be tough to do this and be a healthy vegetarian. I think everyone has cravings for starches and sugars at first. Part of it is habit and lets face it, those foods are damned tasty! But I also think it is a metabolic cycle fueling those cravings too. Every time I get off my diet for awhile, I'm back to the cravings. But once I hop back...
  21. Nancym
    I've been really a lot healthier follow a "paleo" diet. There's a book out by the researcher Loren Cordain. Unfortunately all these starches and sugars we're eating all the time are too much for us. At best, humans only had seasonal access to higher carbohydrate food for most of their evolutionary time span. So anyway, this diet focuses on getting back...
  22. Nancym
    I wouldn't know a knish if it bit me, but I saw someone once make... I think it was Latke's with rice paper, you know the stuff they use as a wrapper for asian cooking, on Food TV. No wait, it was wonton wrappers. But maybe rice paper would work.
  23. Nancym
    It looks like any exposure to gluten causes an autoimmune reaction that will elevate the antibodies two years or longer, according to Dr. Fine. When you've gotten a few subsequent autoimmune diseases and don't want any more... you do everything to avoid that sort of challenge. That's why some of us are so very fanatical. Everyone has to figure out what...
  24. Nancym
    Well... I was going to suggested an egg based custard, or lemon curd, maybe served on top of fresh berries. But that obviously is very heavy in eggs. Or I was thinking meringues. All my dessert ideas involve eggs. Another thought is coconut crusted, dates filled with almond paste? Just made that up. Sounds good to me. Chocolate dipped fruit...
  25. Nancym
    I'd avoid the silver... I don't want to tarnish my reputation... (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun).
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