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  1. CeliaCruz
    Okay, but if you're saying that recent hybridization is the cause (or at least one of the factors) of Celiac (or an increase in Celiac cases) then what you're saying is that Celiac is an environmental disease. But you've also said that we can't "cure" Celiac because it's a genetic disease. Also, the hybridization of crops like wheat is nothing new. Plants...
  2. CeliaCruz

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    CeliaCruz replied to grantschoep's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Yeah, it's a really streamlined menu. Your only choices are a) a burrito soft tacos c) crunchy tacos d) a burrito bol e) a salad. And then you get to choose the meat (steak, chicken, pork, spicy beef), the salsa (mild, hot, corn) and your other toppings (cheese, sour cream, lettuce etc). It's all done in this quasi-conveyer belt method with people at...
  3. CeliaCruz
    The Chinese have always had wheat and/or gluten in their diet: soy sauce, noodles, beer etc. Sure, they don't quite rock the wheat the way we westerners do but Celiac disease doesn't recognize quantity. Celiacs get sick whether we accidentally get some soy sauce in our foods or simply eat an entire pizza. The average Chinese person "glutens" himself just...
  4. CeliaCruz
    Setbacks? Oh yeah. It's funny how all the literature you read at first just makes it seem so easy. All you have to do is decide not to eat gluten anymore and all of your problems are over. Poof! And then you actually try to go on a gluten-free diet and you realize that you were only getting the Readers Digest version of things. There's so much to learn...
  5. CeliaCruz
    The reason that we have "more" disease today is because people are living longer and modern science is becoming more sophisticated and starting to recognize certain conditions as diseases. Take Alzeimers' disease. Several years ago, people didn't live long enough to catch Alzeimers. People died in childbirth or they died of simple bacterial infections...
  6. CeliaCruz
    Yes, Diarrhea might not be the absolute universal Celiac symptom, but it's definitely my impression from reading these boards that most (if not all) of us suffer from it. And yes, while constipation is considered a symptom of celiac disease, it's much less common...and even the people who suffer from it don't report being as plagued by it regularly as the...
  7. CeliaCruz
    A number of reasons, I guess. For starters, Alcoholism is considered an addiction. Addictions are destructive things. (Have ya seen Courtney Love lately? Whitney Houston?) What could be more "diseased" than that? If you can't stop engaging in behavior that you know is killing you through willpower alone, obviously something is wrong. Also many...
  8. CeliaCruz
    I disagree. Technically what happens to you when you have Celiac is that your immune system THINKS you are being poisoned when it comes into contact with gluten and reacts to what it PERCEIVES as a poisonous substance in the human body. Your body ejects all of the food inside your digestive system in an effort to get the offending material out (diarrhea...
  9. CeliaCruz
    I admit that "enjoy your diet" is a weird thing to say (what's wrong with "enjoy your meal!"?) but technically he's right. We are all "on diets". We're not on diets so we can lose weight and look good in our bathing suits, but because we can't digest gluten properly, we are on the gluten-free diet. People who are diabetic are on no-sugar diets, people...
  10. CeliaCruz
    Word. This is a no brainer. Yes, I eat better because of this disease...but it's a disease. And I don't want it anymore than I'd want to have polio or MS. So if there was a pill I could take once and it was 100% effective (or if it didn't always work, there'd be a reliable diagnostic that would let you know the pill was working and you could start eating...
  11. CeliaCruz
    Funny! I took a trip to Berlin a few years ago. I was blissfully unaware of my condition at that point so I was eating everything. I thought the food overall was okay -- some of it was pretty good and some of it was blah. It's not like I was in France or Italy! But the desserts, on the other hand, were a revelation. The most amazing tasting sweets were...
  12. CeliaCruz
    ...says CK, modeling her new "Altoids" avator pic.
  13. CeliaCruz
    Well I just gave him my info and now there's $46 million in my checking account. Catch you all later, suckas! No but seriously? Here's the sad thing: I opened up that PM this morning and started to read and as soon as I saw the whole "Cuba" thing I assumed that he was a legit board member who saw my Screen Name, thought I was Cuban and was trying to...
  14. CeliaCruz

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    CeliaCruz replied to grantschoep's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Interesting. The Chipotle franchise I go to is located near Grand Central Station (it's literally called "Grand Central" on the locator website) and it's usually really crowded and they have lots of people behind the counter working the line. One person puts down a tortilla for you, fills it with rice (or just puts rice on an empty plate if you're just...
  15. CeliaCruz
    Oh yeah! Back when I thought I only had a wheat allergy I'd cheat from time to time. If I was good and abstained from wheat altogether, it wasn't that hard to stay away. But if I ate something with wheat in it, I'd crave more of the same for at least a few days later. It's like what they say happens to a sober alcoholic if he has a single drink -- it...
  16. CeliaCruz
    What is "Met"? Is it anything like "Mead" which is a sweet wine that they mention in Beowulf? I had an afterschool job in a kosher bakery when I was in high school (I know, the irony!) and we sold a German Chocolate Cake (another irony!) which was basically our normal chocolate cake but with a coconut/chocolate frosting. That frosting was really good...
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    CeliaCruz replied to IronedOut's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    It sounds like this waitress had been trained on what do for Celiac diners (or given something to read on the subject) but just didn't have any real experience with an actual Celiac and that's why everything was so awkward and uncomfortable. ("This dish is NOT FOR YOU!!!!") I mean, if I didn't actually have this disease myself and I was a waiter and one...
  18. CeliaCruz
    Makes perfect sense to me. When your immune system senses that gluten is in your system, it reacts as if being poisoned and clears everything (even the non-glutenous stuff) out of your digestive system really fast. That's what the diarrhea is. Subsequently, there's no food in your digestive system and so a signal is sent that new food is needed and that...
  19. CeliaCruz
    I get the white blisters. I think. Do they resemble acne? I used to think they were whiteheads and I'd try to pop them but they were unpoppable -- almost like warts or something. I get them all over my face. I told my dermatologist that I was a Celiac and suggested to him that these might be DH, but he assured me they weren't DH and put me on anti-biotics...
  20. CeliaCruz
    Jillian, the PDF can be downloaded from www.risotteria.com. I downloaded the PDF yesterday and even though the menu has, like, three items on it, I keep glancing back at it, committing it to memory and planning out which pastas and sauces i'm going to order when I go next Tuesday.
  21. CeliaCruz

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    CeliaCruz replied to lizzy's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I wasn't taking offense as a bartender -- I haven't bartended in years -- I was just confused about what your grievance was. If a second server came over and served you a new glass of wine, what was the problem and why were you continuing to complain? (And why -- despite this woman's attitude -- does it bother you that you don't get to keep your original...
  22. CeliaCruz

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    CeliaCruz replied to lizzy's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Okay, but didn't you say in your first post that the waitress got someone else to pour you new drinks after you said something to her? If someone gave you a set of new clean drinks, game over, problem solved. There's no need to keep complaining if your grievances have been addressed. Insist that the second server be your designated server and enjoy the...
  23. CeliaCruz
    That is awesome! Now I have to get over there. For some bizarre reason I still haven't eaten at Risoteria! I have a non-celiac friend (he loves Risotto!) who is always offering to take me and we just never get it together! Just think: if this Tuesday evening turns out to be profitable for them, maybe other NYC restaurants will notice and have similar...
  24. CeliaCruz

    ARCHIVED Chipotle

    CeliaCruz replied to grantschoep's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    I just had two lovely experiences there -- today and yesterday. I'm freelancing near one of them and getting sooooo tired of my daily cottage cheese/fruit/Lay's Stax lunches so I took the plunge. I had the pork burrito bol (no tortilla!) and it was the easiest thing to negotiate. Yummy too! I was going to have a taco, but the "tortilla guy" was literally...
  25. CeliaCruz
    Amen. I used to always feel the need to explain to EVERYONE exactly why I couldn't eat x, y and z. On some level I think I did that because I felt the need to apologize for something. And then that anxiety/guilt shows up in my voice and body language and totally gives everyone tacit permission to make all kinds of ignorant comments about my condition....
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