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  1. tarnalberry
    Hi! Ah... Chocolate. I should clarify that my sig's talking about pure chocolate, not chocolate in things like Milky Way and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Other people can tell you about those; I'm a snob for the good, pure chocolate. Technically, the answer to your question, in my experience, is no - it's not hidden. But you have to read...
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    With most of the protein powders, I find that it helps to make a slurry the same way you do for thinkening foods with corn starch or rice flour, to give the powder time and ability to absorb moisture evenly. So, you put a little in a glass, add a bit of water, and mix it up, adding a little more water so it goes from being a thick paste to a slurry. Then...
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    I would encourage each and every one of us to correct our doctors when they say this fallacy. Tell them "Eh, it's really not that hard of a diet. Besides, it can be way healthier too. You wish everyone ate healthy, and that's hard, so why the hypocritic advice?" Heh, maybe not the last line. That's just me being snarky. Point being, they won...
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    The problem with listing the side effects, the long term complications, or any of that, is that it still doesn't explain why seeminly miniscule amounts will hurt you. For those explanations, I ask people to remember any chemistry lab they had in high school or college. Did they ever have a little spill of something before the experiment started, and there...
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    it's the cookies! seriously, though, it is. if you clear the history and stored files, you'll see them pop up. (it's referencing an old pic that it's stored on your computer, so it doesn't have to download it every time, for "efficiency".) unfortunately, doing this means that you'll have to sign in to *all* your sites again, if you leave yourself logged...
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    since the gluten that harms celiacs is found in wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats, you can see that just being free of wheat is *NOT* enough to be safe. oats are a different ball of wax - commercial ones are contaminated, and even if you buy specifcally gluten free ones from the handful of farms that grow them that way (yes, it's different), about ...
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    ditto what patti said. unfortunately, it's better to 'overload' to reduce the chance of a false negative as much as possible. there's no way to eliminate that chance, though.
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    this is when it's good to have two things: 1) leftovers in the fridge or freezer ready to be eaten 2) ingredients for quick meals - like eggs and leftover rice for a quick fried rice, or tuna avocado and corn tortillas for a quick tuna taco, or hummus and vegetables with an apple and peanut butter.
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    I would encourage you to call your first doctor on her negligence. (You may want to avoid that word, as it has legal connotations, however.) Doctors need feedback as well, good and bad.
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    another reason for that to happen is to have acidic saliva. it will eat away at the tooth enamel, and also make your teeth much more sensitive. a friend of mine has this issue, and she has sensitive teeth, has gotten cavities plenty, but is *THE* poster child for proper dental hygiene.
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    it really amuses me that people spend the time to come up with such crazy ways of doing nothing. (this boils down to multiplying the first three digits of your phone number by 10,000 (because it's in the 100's, and phone numbers are in the 1,000,000's), and adding the last four digits, with some obfuscation of adding and subtracting the same amount in...
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    I freeze larger batches than ice cube trays, because I've never had a recipe that called for less than two cups! But yeah... I usually take the chicken carcass (and juices) from a baked chicken, cook 'em in a pot w/ some herbs (italian) and veggies (carrots, onions, celery), for quite a while, and then take out all the chunks.
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    Dental enamel defects are quite common in celiacs, due to a lack of proper nutrition reaching the body.
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    If you're car camping, you can bring a cooler for meats with you. Fruits and some whole, uncut, veggies will stay good for a number of days without refrigeration - same goes for eggs, actually. Make sure to bring plenty of nuts along (for fat), and avocado goes great with anything. I've made flax crackers in my dehydrator for such purposes as well, and...
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    as gf4life explained, a wheat allergy and celiac disease are not the same thing. the treatment for the later encompasses the treatment for the former, but the underlying mechanism of the two conditions is different. the wheat allergy is mediated by the IgE response mechanism of the immune system, which causes inflammation and histamine release, amongst...
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    so I'm *totally* lazy, but Open Original Shared Link turns up a lot of hits for both.
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    The reason that quantity doesn't matter is that it's chemistry in your gut. The autoimmune reaction is a mostly-self-sustaining chemical reaction. Once you get it started, it drives itself. It doesn't matter if you have 100 molecules of gluten (that's a really really small amount), or 100,000 (still a really really small amount), you still kick off that...
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    No, we are not capable of testing for 0% at a reasonable cost - or at all - technologically or scientifically. There is not instrumentation to do it. Logically, you cannot prove a negative, and you're asking scientific instruments to do this. The products that you see currently labeled gluten free are not tested and proven to be free of any possible trace...
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    allergy shots aren't pharmaceuticals, in the sense of prescription drugs. they're small quantities of the substances your body is allergic to in order to teach your body to not react to 'nominal' levels of the substance. they *can* work for *some* people for *some* allergies, except food allergies, generally. enough caveats? they worked fabulously well...
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    Check those cornflakes - I thought (though I could be confusing them with a different name) they had malt. (Barley malt, and almost all "malt" is barley malt, is a no-no.)
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    woohoo! congrats!
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    Also, if you walk down Pike Place (above ground, towards the original Starbucks, just past it, I think) there's a little bakery, hole in the wall. I don't know the name. And it's just a storefront. But they have gluten free stuff. The apple cinnamon bread was good! (If you've come from the fish-throwing place (on the left) and have passed the knife store...
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    good catch.
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    ARCHIVED Wow

    tarnalberry replied to Lisa's topic in Board/Forum Technical Help

    The glutenfreeforum colors, which are totally separate from the celiac.com colors, I'm actually quite a fan of. Really, as long as they're readable, I don't care.
  25. tarnalberry
    I'd elaborate on this by noting that this is true if you are whole sale eliminating soy rather than significantly reducing it. I find, for instance, that having so much soy as what is in soy yogurt (as I'm dairy free), is a problem. But the amount that's in soy sauce in stir fries is not. (And, there for, the amount in the lecithin in chocolate is not...
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