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  1. tarnalberry
    And wheat. Many soy sauces are made with wheat. I always recommend San-J's wheat free tamari. La Choy also makes a wheat free soy sauce, but it sucks.
  2. tarnalberry
    I disagree. There are clearly defined antibodies, that the immune system generates, that are directed at the body. THAT is the definition of "autoimmune disease". The question is what causes the body's immune system to create seriologically identifiable, unique (such as tTg in the case of celiac) antibodies which attack itself (which is something that...
  3. tarnalberry
    No tricks to it, you just don't. Well, some people might have tricks that work for them, but it'll vary from person to person. Get rid of the stuff and don't look back - and remember that it's a choice to eat it, every time you do. And doing so (eating it) will just make you sicker! Instead, find other things that you enjoy to eat instead. You may...
  4. tarnalberry
    where do I get gluten free cakes, cookies, crackers? in my kitchen, because I make them. occasionally Whole Foods. but mostly I make them if I want them, but I don't really have them that often (a few times a year), because there's lot of other healthy food to eat that doesn't take so long to cook.
  5. tarnalberry
    I like ShiKai's leave in conditioner. Good stuff, if pricey.
  6. tarnalberry
    This applies to charcol briquets, which sometimes use wheat as a binder to help hold the ground, and then pressed, charchol together. Instead, get whole, natural chunk charcol (what you see after you burn a log of wood, essentially), and it will have no additives. No. Charcol isn't the problem, it's the additives. Charcol implies a particular...
  7. tarnalberry
    Unfortunately, they are adults, and there's not a lot you can do. You can tell them you had a similar experince, ask them to get tested by their doctor, and demonstrate that they need not be at all deprived on a gluten free diet. But don't nag, or they may stay on gluten just to annoy you.
  8. tarnalberry
    Yeah, I don't think pumpkin would work - no fat or protein to hold the cookies from crumbling. You'd need something else - be it egg, gum, oil... Not to mention they would be *very* dense. It's a good idea, but needs a little more than three ingredients.
  9. tarnalberry
    dx and rx are common medical abbrev's - diagnosis and prescription.
  10. tarnalberry
    I would hope that if you opted not to confront him, you've switched doctors, written a letter to him, and to the BBB. Otherwise, by continuing to support his practice, you support that behavior. The case of *switching* meds from one company to another is a different situation of *not treating* a condition (which is more akin to what you prescribe in...
  11. tarnalberry
    That's not quite the same as a kickback for specific prescriptions. I see your comparison, however, and do believe that sort of thing should be closely regulated (if allowed at all) as the potential for untoward influence is high. (I've been involved in this with a poor choice of antibiotic being prescribed to me by my allergist, so I do know where you...
  12. tarnalberry
    Yeah, sure, anyone knocking on death's door isn't going to ignore the diet, but the fact is that most people aren't there. That's not the picture that doctors see, that studies see, or that is representative of the bulk of celiac cases. We all hear about or have friends/family who aren't supportive without a diagnosis, and those are hard to come by...
  13. tarnalberry
    I agree with Carla - you don't have an unclear diagnosis at all. You have a very clear one. Three months may not have been long enough to get enough damage if you'd been gluten free for very long, heal quickly, they didn't do sufficient sampling in the right place, and the lab had strict guidelines for what constituted "enough damage" to qualify as celiac...
  14. tarnalberry
    You may start getting the classic GI symptoms (bloating, pain, loose stools, fatigue, etc.) or you may get neurologic symptoms (brain fog, nerve pain, headaches, etc.) or other systemic systems (joint pain, irritability, etc.). Or you may not notice a whole lot in outward symptoms. Inside, however, you body will produce antibodies to gluten. Other chemicals...
  15. tarnalberry
    LaChoy does make a gluten free soy sauce (they're regular stuff is made without wheat, as I recall, but as always, CHECK THE LABEL). However, in this food snob's opinion, LaChoy is *nasty* tasting soy sauce, and the flavor of it alone is enough to turn my stomach. (I laugh, but I'm not kidding.)
  16. tarnalberry
    I wonder if this... thoroughness has been added recently, because I can't even link to the main site, and I some how doubt that a probe therometer is a competitive gluten-free niche item....
  17. tarnalberry
    I tried linking to Open Original Shared Link in a post (Open Original Shared Link), and the link wouldn't work. At first, I tried using the macro: highlighting the phrase I had typed and wanted to link, then selecting the macro, and entering the url (Open Original Shared Link .com/Pyrex-Digital-Probe-Thermometer-Timer/dp/B00004RC4R/sr=8-1/qid=116508...
  18. tarnalberry
    Nope, you don't stuff the turkey. Not only is it safer (reason #1), but you won't get the same texture out of the rice stuffing if you don't stir it (to help bring out the starches) (reason #2). Stuffing the turkey is passe! It increases the risk of food poisoning (reason #1 again), not to mention it causes you to overcook your turkey because the filled...
  19. tarnalberry
    there's long been a theory that RA requires an infectious trigger, though there seems to be a genetic component. I can't speak to the specifics of what's mentioned here, as I don't keep up on RA research (ought to, though... runs in the family), but many autoimmune conditions are thought to be cases where the immune systems attack on its host body (the autoimmune...
  20. tarnalberry
    Yep, even at the age of 23, I was dx'ed with hemmhroids. No itching here, though they're non-trivial at times, and there's not really a lot you can always do with them, other than "be nice to your stool". But zansu is right. I had no other symptoms, just a little bit of bright red blood either on the stool (at the very end) or on the toilet paper...
  21. tarnalberry
    I don't think it has to do - on the doctors' side - with money. They don't get a kickback with each prescription they write for you. If you want to argue there's no money in it for pharmaceutical companies, and hence they don't keep it in everyone's eye, that's a different argument. Or maybe I have more faith in people than to think they're always out...
  22. tarnalberry
    Sounds like either a stomach flu, or - quite honestly - a mild case of food poisoning. No, in the case of mild cases of food poisoning, other people do not have to have gotten sick - it depends on how well your body fights it off. But it could also be the dairy catching up to you. If it's fairly significantly out of your gluten pattern (timing was, you...
  23. tarnalberry
    Open Original Shared Link that I use, though this year I used a bunch of chanterrelles and black forest mushrooms as well, and it was *quite* tasty. Open Original Shared Link that includes arborio for a creamier stuffing.
  24. tarnalberry
    you can check pubmed for the studies, but I recall studies that note that the expected test result specificity and sensitivity are lower than estimated in the labs when those tests are used in practices. 98% sensitivity just isn't the case in practice.
  25. tarnalberry
    you might consider adding beans to your diet, and possibly flax meal, especially in hot cereal.
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