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  1. trents
    Yes, and some doctors deny it is a real disease entity. But more and more are recognizing it as a medical reality. By definition, a syndrome is a collection of symptoms that is difficult to find an underlying cause for. Those of us with celiac disease understand that many medical problems have an autoimmune base. And the list is growing.
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    Has anyone checked you out for CPS (Chronic Pain Syndrome)?
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    So you are now 75 yr. old? This is assuming your efforts to eat gluten free started with celiac disease diagnosis. Are you male or female? Sorry to have to ask but "Chris" can be used for either and the causes and patterns of hair loss can be different for men and women.
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    Getting back on topic here, do labeling laws in the U.S. require that "naturally gluten free" foods contain warnings when they are being processed on equipment that may also be used for processing foods that contain gluten bearing grains? Seems to me that I commonly read that warning on things like confections that are processed on equipment also used for...
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    Okay everyone, let's take a step back here. The posting is getting adversarial. We may not agree with other's opinions but we still need to treat each other with respect.
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    So you're saying a bag of raisins may have gluten contamination? Never thought about that and I've never heard of that being brought up in gluten-free circles. For that matter, I guess the air we breathe could have gluten in it, especially if you lived in a wheat producing farm area.
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    So AuntieE, I'm assuming this gluten free product scarcity is not affecting you much since you don't use processed foods that are labeled gluten-free anyway.
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    That's incredible! Where I live we can't even put any warm weather garden plants outside until the middle of May. Ripe Tomatoes aren't available until early August. Sweet corn maybe early September. I am envious.
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    Haven't noticed the milk prices changing much where we live in SW Washington State and we even have a local Dairygold plant. There is a lot of milk produced locally here so prices may be tied to nearness to suppliers.
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    Does it only hurt when you swallow? Do you have pain at other times or when you lie down to sleep? Was the doctor who did the scoping a gastro doc or a GP?
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    It must cost the food companies a lot to add the words, "Gluten Free" to the labels of naturally gluten free products so that they have to charge more to cover it (said tongue n' cheek).
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    And then there is the other extreme in gluten free labeling where you are seeing it tagged to food groups that would be naturally gluten free anyway like milk and OJ. Of course, that is marketing for you.
  13. trents
    Well, this may turn out to be an involuntary weight loss program for some.
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    Bob's Red Mill out of Portland, OR area has been and continues to be out of all types of hot breakfast cereals and prepackaged baking mix products. Anything you could sink your teeth into is gone. Sometime ago my wife bought a 2 lb. can of powered whole eggs for like $20. It's now selling on Amazon for like $97.
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    Unfortunately, "gluten-free" doesn't cover all the bases for those with celiac disease and other gluten-related reactions but who suffer insensitivity to other ingredients which are common to processed foods. But still, I'm very grateful that the food industry has now given us so many gluten free offerings with flavor and texture qualities that approximate...
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    I realize all that but I'm just trying to understand why you, "sent them a copy of FDA regs on allowances for gluten!" when they already know what the regs are and claim to be in compliance. Do new FDA regs require less than 20 ppm of gluten to be able to use the gluten-free label? What am I missing here? Otherwise, in order to file a meaningful FDA complaint...
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    The link says the product is tested to make sure there are less than 20 ppm of gluten. That meets the standard. Are you sure you aren't in the 10% of Celiacs who react to oats like you would to wheat, barely or rye?
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    Video on separating wheat, barley, rye? What? Didn't follow that. Do you have a link to that video? Did the honey nut cheerios claim to be gluten-free? Historically, breakfast cereal manufacturers have often used "malt flavoring" in many of their corn and rice-based products and was so stated in the ingredient labels. This they would not be gluten free...
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    Yes, but if gluten-free products are all that is left on the shelf . . .
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    You said that last year you became very sick and was tested for Celiac Disease (I would assume) that prompted you to go gluten-free in your eating. Did the testing confirm you are a celiac? Did you have only the blood test done or did you get an upper GI to confirm villous atrophy? Did your illness improve after going gluten-free? I don't mean to be nosy...
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    That is a good plan.
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    Eating gluten-free would not cause the shape of your stools to change. I'm not a doctor but I would think that could only be caused by a deformation in the rectum/anus such as might be caused by hemorrhoids, scar tissue or a growth of some kind in or around the area. Have you had a colonoscopy recently?
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    I hope the general population doesn't all of a sudden decide to go gluten-free!
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    Went to Safeway yesterday as I was getting low in gluten-free bread. The bread isle had obviously picked over and the gluten-free bread section was somewhat depleted but I was able to get a couple of loaves of Franz gluten-free bread, my favorite. I could have taken more but decided not to hoard. If worse comes to worse we have enough gluten-free flour products...
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    All stores need to limit the amount of an item one person can buy per trip. Some are already doing that, like Walmart. This would give opportunity for the supply chain, already likely impaired by employee absenteeism, to catch up. Buying a lot per trip may be in keeping with social distancing but it would backfire when people start to suffer from malnutrition...
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