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ARCHIVED Awkward Topic But Important
tarnalberry replied to gointribal's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I've had it happen to me. :-) (Usually by men who think condoms are horrible and once you get married you shouldn't have to use the awful buggers ever again and if you do the wife is a mean, mean bitty. I think, when compared to raising kids you're not ready for, they're not so bad of a trade off.) check ingredients carefully. a lot of common ingredients... -
there are a number of options for doing situps on a fitness ball. you start with having your lower back on the ball (sacrum), for easy ones. google to find a whole host of options.
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ARCHIVED Awkward Topic But Important
tarnalberry replied to gointribal's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Condoms do not have powder in them, and no ingredient on any condom I have seen has ever made me suspect gluten. I would be careful of flavored lubes, and would advise away from spermicides (nonoxyl-9) merely because it is quite an irritant (they're moving towards taking it off the market). Other than that, you should be fine. As for recommendations... -
doing situps on it is good too. I've had one for ... about seven years now. I use it instead of a chair at work for my back, and sitting on one of those - if you don't slouch and don't rest your arms on the desk in front of you, will build core muscles like you wouldn't believe! (Sitting on it cross legged without support from a desk is the uber-advanced...
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ARCHIVED I'm New Here, Pls Hlp With Symptoms And Necessary Tests
tarnalberry replied to a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
I would encourage you to get a blood test (the standar celiac panel), and go from there, depending on the results. The blood test is fairly straight forward, and you can decide after getting the results from that whether or not you want to do an intestinal biopsy. You can also try the gluten-free diet, but do not try the diet prior to doing blood tests... -
ARCHIVED Omg...i Might Be On To Something
tarnalberry replied to Rachel--24's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut
Ethanol has been used as an additive in gas, particularly during winter, for a number of years, to reduce smog effects. It's cheap to produce from corn. They're moving to use it year round for a more environmentally friendly gasoline (ha!), and it's apparently a part of the reason for the spike in prices (distribution of ethanol wasn't logistically set... -
ARCHIVED Biopsy Came Back Negative
tarnalberry replied to hollyd's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
If you're going to give the diet a try, I would suggest being *entirely* gluten free for a MINIMUM of a month - three months would be MUCH better - and then doing a challenge with a large amount of gluten on a single day after that, keeping track of how you feel. If the results from eliminating gluten from your diet are completely and totally obvious, however... -
ARCHIVED I've Never Heard Of Celiac Or Dh, But Maybe That's My Answer...
tarnalberry replied to a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
You certainly could have celiac with those symptoms. I would encourage you to ask your doctor for the full celiac blood panel, ask for a referral to a dermatologist to get the rash biopsied, and do NOT start the diet until you get the blood tests back and find out if the doctor wants to do an endoscopy with intestinal biopsy as well. (The diet could alter... -
ARCHIVED Omg...i Might Be On To Something
tarnalberry replied to Rachel--24's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut
afaik, lactic acid is often not a dairy byproduct. (heck, we make it in our own muscles when we work anaerobically.) and they'll derive almost everything from corn, so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd get that out of corn too... at least you don't have to worry about getting gas from the gas station in your mouth (the ethanol going into gas - and part... -
ARCHIVED Shakenbakes
tarnalberry replied to jinches's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
MSG is gluten free (glutamate isn't gluten), but some people don't tolerate MSG regardless. -
Swimming! So many people overlook it! Yes, I know that finding a pool isn't always cheap, or convenient, but when I was having problems enough with my knees that walking a mile was quite painful, I called around, found a gym with an indoor pool with hours I could work with (harder than you'd expect in SoCal). It was a half hour drive (one way, at 6 in...
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In a setting like Outback where the brown sugar is going to be open often and possibly in a humid environment, it would get hard without the bread in it. In our kitchens, where it's primarily kept sealed, it's not the same issue. The bread absorbs the water that would otherwise cause the sugar to clump together and harden in the environment that they are...
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While I was never vastly overweight, at 20, I decided 152lbs was too much for a 5'2" girl. So I changed that. I was down to 112 for my wedding two years later, and have been between that and 126 for the past seven years, the highest weight being during a ten month period of 80-100 hour VERY stressful work weeks that eventually led my husband and I to move...
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ARCHIVED How Gluten-free Are Nuts?
tarnalberry replied to SColor's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I've never had a problem with nuts, but always do check ingredients. Of course, I prefer raw almonds. :-) -
ARCHIVED Finally Am Dedicated..
tarnalberry replied to lisaemu's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
you can have pizza again, you just need to make (or buy) a crust that doesn't have gluten. :-) -
ARCHIVED The Best Advice Or Info About celiac disease You Have Gotten From
tarnalberry replied to Jnkmnky's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
lots and lots of things. lots and lots of little things that add up to make my life easier. thank you - to everyone! -
modified food starch is often perfectly safe (it can be made from any starch - and is more often corn than wheat), but you do have to check on it. miso can be safe, but you have to find out what the ingredients are - there is more than one type of miso, and some types are fermented with barley. most sour creams are fine, but you do have to be aware of ingredients...
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I would note, for those times when you're away from your kitchen, and can't rely on food from a restaurant, you can get 'energy bars' that are nothing but dried fruits and nuts - no added chemicals or other wacky ingredients. For those of us with hypoglycemic issues, they're a good thing to have around just in case.
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ARCHIVED What Makes You Happiest About Being Gluten-free?
tarnalberry replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
no side effects from a pill to worry about! -
you note that you can't walk... can you swim? that's much easier on the joints. even just walking laps in water is much easier on the joints because you're not supporting as much weight, but because you're working against the viscosity of the water, it's still good exercise.
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ARCHIVED If You Are A Vegetarian.... Why?
tarnalberry replied to Jnkmnky's topic in Introduce Yourself / Share Stuff
add some cubed, olive oil drizzled, roasted beets to sauteed kale for a sweet, but still healthy, twist. :-) -
ARCHIVED Omg...i Might Be On To Something
tarnalberry replied to Rachel--24's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut
I think citric acid is usually derived from corn in the US, which is one of the things that makes a corn allergy so difficult - almost all canned goods used citric acid in them, and that almost always means corn. (So, for instance, a bad corn intolerance means no plain canned tomatoes, from what I've read on corn intolerance sites, because of the citric... -
ARCHIVED Non-dairy Coffee Creamer
tarnalberry replied to mmaccartney's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
"Dairy free" on foods, from a labeling restriction sense, was originally worded to accomodate the only dairy problem people thought about - lactose intolerance. So, if it didn't have lactose, it was dairy free. Yeah, we all know this is crap, but that's what happens when uninformed people (or people who don't care that they are uninformed) write the regulations... -
there are a handful of grocery stores (wild oats, for instance, and I think some whole foods) that make california rolls with real crab meat instead of imitation crab meat. in that case, california rolls are fine. some restaurants may do the same, but if it's not labeled, assume they use imitation crab meat for california rolls. if I go out for sushi...
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ARCHIVED Gluten-free Casein-free Choclate
tarnalberry replied to kempy99's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
dark chocolate (by and large) doesn't contain milk. (I think I saw one that did... it was a wacky flavor, and I wouldn't really call it dark chocolate.) many are made on shared lines, of course. most plain chocolate is gluten-free as well, always read the label. my favorites are tropical source, endagered species, dagoba, scharffen-berger, and green&...