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  1. Some companies seal their tea bags with wheat paste. Celestial Seasonings has a gluten free disclaimer on their boxes- some of them say 'may contain gluten', but most of them say 'gluten free'.
  2. While I was in college I was living in the dorms, and just cooked all my food. There were meals available but I didn't feel like interrogating the cook, and besides, I preferred to make my own things anyway. I didn't use the oven at all, just the stovetop- all the other students were cooking frozen pizzas and cookies, things like that. It was pretty...
  3. Even if whoever you're dating is not celiac, you may find out later on that they are. I discovered my boyfriend had celiac a few months after meeting him (2002). We had a pretty serious converstion about his symptoms almost matching my pre-diagnosis sypmtoms, and he's been gluten-free ever since. I've always thought that was pretty neat. It turned out...
  4. I was informed by a friend of mine that high fructose corn syrup is frightening in many ways. One of them is that it turns off the body's ability to know when it's full, another is that it spikes insulin levels dramatically. I'm not sure if these other things have been documented in humans, but in rats it caused cirrosis of the liver and infertility. It...
  5. During my first couple years on the gluten-free diet, if I ate something contaminated I would know within 20 minutes. I would get severe stomach aches and bloating, and the other less pleasant sypmtoms. I would also stay sick for an entire week. Now, 3 years later, I don't get nearly the reaction I did, and I don't always even know if I've been glutened...
  6. The company making the chocolate boost may have changed ingredients. Do they have a useful faq?
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