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  1. CMCM

    ARCHIVED Corn Chips

    CMCM replied to hathor's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    While I am not specifically sensitive to corn, I have to be careful with it. I limit myself to very small amounts of chips etc. because otherwise, they definitely do upset me. I suspect corn is another of those things all people probably would do better without.
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    There is no certainty with my own reactoins: I might eat gluten and have no noticeable reaction at all. I've eaten a LOT of gluten at one meal and had nausea/cramps/D within half an hour. I've eaten some gluten and been very nauseous 3 hours later. Sometimes that led to vomiting. I've had gluten where the digestive reaction occurred a day or two...
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    Sometimes eating something doesn't produce a discernible reaction. I'm that way....I'm not immediately reactive to gluten. I was very sick at the time of diagnosis, then was carefully gluten and dairy free for 5 or 6 months. Most of my many other intolerances cleared up during that period, and at that point I found I could handle occasional dairy again...
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    ARCHIVED Just Diagnosed

    CMCM replied to markr's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Welcome Mark! Avoiding gluten isn't so bad, and you can learn to make breads etc. if you want to eat them. I'm sure the necessary ingredients are readily available in Israel! Going gluten free may also improve your diabetes....probably type 1 is never eliminated, but the severity of it could definitely improve. Ask lots of questions here, people...
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    If you actually think you are cured, then even after 6 years you don't understand the basic facts of celiac disease. If you have a celiac gene, you have a genetic predisposition to celiac disease, which can be triggered and develop IF YOU EAT GLUTEN. This predisposition never goes away. Eat gluten and you can develop celiac disease, which is officially...
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    Not your fault! More and more doctors, as they study all this and all the evidence, are moving towards the belief that gluten is not good for any of us....the human digestive system doesn't handle it well. Also....the gluten content of grains has been hybridized and engineered to be greater and greater over the last 20 or 30 years, because gluten is responsible...
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    I just made a Gluten Free Pantry coffee cake mix and it turned out really good. But oh my gosh, $6.50 for the mix! I added some extra brown sugar and a bunch of extra cinnamon to the crumbly topping stuff, but otherwise I followed directions. I just saw a coffee cake recipe on this thread, so I'll try that next time. But if any of you see the mix and...
  8. CMCM
    I'm so new at this I hesitate to offer an "expertise" (cuz I don't have much!! :-) ), but I tried the Bob's Red Mill bread mix in my OLD (1993!!) Oster bread machine and it turned out good. Then the machine died, and I got a new Zojirushi one because I liked the idea of the regular horizontal shape bread shape it produces and it also has two kneading...
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    I really loved that small Zoji machine due to the small space it takes, BUT....I decided the tiny pan was too small since most bread mixes are for 1.5 pound loaves. That said, I sort of think you might be able to cut a mix in half and do it half at a time in that small pan.....I did the Pamela's mix in a pan designed for 2-lb loaves and the mix was for ...
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    Update on gluten free setting for Zojirushi machine....I had emailed Zojirushi and asked for info on how to program for the gluten free cycle, and today I got a response. I thought I'd post it in case any of you have this machine or plan to get it. I haven't tried this yet, and since it's kind of involved, I sure hope all this will stay in the machine as...
  11. CMCM
    Go to Amazon and search the site for bread machines, and you can read a ton of reviews about the Breadman. Personally, I think probably any machine does our gluten-free bread just fine....before I bought a new one, I had a 1993 Oster which did a Bob's Red Mill bread mix pretty good. Then the machine died on my second loaf, so I didn't get to try anything...
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    I forgot to mention...the Zoji has a bunch of built in cycles, but it is also custom programmable so you could definitely set up a special gluten-free cycle to your own specs. Since I didn't know what these specs should actually be and haven't seen discussion of it anywhere, I was just lazy and did the default white bread cycle. I do think I remember...
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    The Zoji manual does mention that it does gluten free bread, but there is no specific cycle for it as there is with the Breadman and perhaps some others. I had read somewhere that gluten-free bread only needs one rise cycle, but I just did my loaf on the most basic white bread cycle which is the machine default, and it had THREE rising periods....45 min...
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    I somehow got on their mailing list and can't get rid of them! I've never read anything yet from them which I didn't already know, however. I looked it over and decided that while I suppose it could be useful for someone who hasn't researched much and who is truly lost with what to do, I figured I knew quite enough to set up my own elimination diets to...
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    Through all the reading I've done the last couple of years, I'm convinced that NO ONE.....celiac gene or no celiac gene...NO ONE should eat gluten. It's poison, the human body wasn't designed to deal with it, eating it creates continual stress on the body and weakens the immune system, leaving you susceptible to all sort of things....including cancer. Most...
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    I had a dreadful time with this and I believe it was related to a magnesium deficiency because once I started taking magnesium supplements regularly it all went away. Fluid intake (i.e. not enough water) could also affect things, but I've read that magnesium deficiency is a huge problem in this country. I posted a long article about it (magnesium) in another...
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    Julie, if you had an endoscopy and blood test which revealed celiac disease, you don't really need to do other tests. Lots of us do the Enterolab stool tests (to show if we are reacting to gluten, have malabsorption etc) because we haven't found a doctor to trust or who is knowledgeable, or perhaps because we have minimized gluten for so long that the problem...
  18. CMCM
    The big frustration for me in identifying a gluten reaction is this: My reactions are all over the map, and have included feeling lousy, feeling spacey, nausea, vomiting (rare), headaches, bloating, joint aches, and a lot of others I'm not remembering right now. The absence of a clear, reliable reaction is what makes it so hard. Most of my life I figured...
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    I did some reading and realized that due to the foods I've had to eliminate, I probably had a magnesium deficiency...in particular, I was getting leg cramps and some other things. I heard about a special supplement being advertised on several talk shows by people I really trust and respect (one is Dennis Prager), so I ordered this company's magnesium that...
  20. CMCM
    Jeez, another IDIOT doctor at work! Your dad's scores all show reactivity to gluten. And the fecal fat score is HUGE....showing malabsorption is a definite factor....a sign of celiac at work. Dr. Fine of Enterolab is most emphatic that with elevated scores, a person should NEVER NEVER NEVER eat a bite of gluten. Eating gluten keeps the body under...
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    My own experience with blood tests is that 1) many if not most doctors may not know exactly which tests to order--in my case an incomplete set of tests was ordered, and 2) a lab may not be familiar enough with what to look for and 3) your condition may not yet be severe enough to produce antibodies in the blood. I was very sick yet for me a blood test...
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    Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a very well known heart doctor, does the foreward in one of my books (can't remember which one at the moment). He discusses how his son has what he termed "acquired" celiac disease....the son doesn't have the recognized celiac genes either, but most definitely came down with celiac disease. Dr. Sinatra felt it was due to toxic mold...
  23. CMCM
    I'd had a celiac blood test (negative) but I was having a lot of symptoms AND I hadn't been eating much gluten for a long time, so I wasn't surprised about the negative blood test. I wasn't about to start eating tons of gluten again, so I decided on the Enterolab full battery of tests. I found it to be extremely informative because I learned which genes...
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    My mom has diagnosed celiac disease, so I wasn't totally surprised to find out I have the gene, too, plus a gluten sensitivity gene from my father, for whatever that is worth (perhaps we ALL have at least one gluten sensitivity gene!!!). I have 3 siblings, none of whom wanted to bother testing themselves. Out of curiousity, my mom decided to do the Enterolab...
  25. CMCM
    I just got the Zojirushi bread machine...and made my first loaf with it. I used the Pamela's bread mix, and only thing different from the instructions was that I added 1 tsp. white vinegar--I read somewhere it was important for our gluten free bread. Anyhow, the bread turned out FABULOUS....nice and high, real loaf shape, soft, sliced nicely, really wonderful...
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