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  1. penguin
    Sorry you're having problems One of my favorite comfort recipes happens to be gluten-free, soy free, and dairy free! It's also ridiculously cheap to make... GREEK RICE 2 tbsp margerine, butter, or oil of choice 1 c. white rice 1 clove garlic, minced 2 c. chicken broth or boullion (stronger than normal is good) 1 lb ground beef...
  2. penguin
    I think it has something to do with the "whole grains" campaign going on in the food manufacturing world. Wheat starch allows them to claim whole grains, or something like that.
  3. penguin
    Thats awesome! Way to create change!
  4. penguin
    Yeah, but there's a difference between trivia and being ignorant. I couldn't tell you anything about football from 5 minutes ago or more than 10 elements on the periodic table, let alone their weights and isotopes. (Good for you on that, actually, DH is a ChemE and doesn't know all of that!) I do know quite a bit of cooking trivia, but that's my interest...
  5. penguin
    OK, I have the results from the lab in front of me: Ferritin 4 ng/ml Expected range: 10-220 IRON BINDING CAPACITY AND IRON AND % SATURATION: Iron, serum 19 ug/dl Expected range: 35-145 Unsaturated IBC 442 ug/dl Expected range: 155-300 Calculated Total IBC 461 ug/dl ...
  6. penguin
    Seriously! I know I always discussed my regularity with my college roomates, and it was definitely a reason not to go out I read the label and they have a special name that they trademarked for the bifidus strain. I just want to stand in the dairy aisle and go: "They're CHEATING you! ANY yogurt will do that!!" Since I'm not gluten-free right now I...
  7. penguin
    It's official. People are big fat idiots.
  8. penguin
    FYI, dannon is not gluten-free. Well, they might be, but they won't say that their stuff is free of gluten. It's best to just avoid the company altogether.
  9. penguin
    What's scary is that this woman works in a restaurant preparing food regularly. I don't think I'd want to eat somewhere where the employees don't know what the food is made out of
  10. penguin
    To have the best chance at a positive biopsy, you have to be eating the equivalent of 4 slices of bread a day for 3 months. My biopsy is August 21st, 3 months and two days after starting the challenge
  11. penguin
    Dannon won't say that Activia is free of gluten. Activia's claims are pure marketing, any yogurt with a lot of cultures (like cascade fresh or stonyfield farms) will do the same thing and are def. gluten-free.
  12. penguin
    I wouldn't be too terribly surprised. I'm interested to see what my bone densinometry comes up with.
  13. penguin
    Please research cleanses thoroughly and talk to your doctor before attempting one.
  14. penguin
    OK, so nobody is going to be happy with what my dr said... He said for now, since I can't tolerate supplements, to eat large amounts of iron-rich foods, and they'll re-do the iron study every six weeks to see if it's getting any better. Lots of steak and eggs for me! He doesn't feel that it's bad enough yet to warrant IV's and whatnot. Hmm, since I'm on...
  15. penguin
    In a couple of stores here it is near the velveeta.
  16. penguin
    Did your roomate sneak any other bites when you weren't looking? Were his goodies anywhere near your food? Crumbs? Does the cat food have gluten in it? I found that gluten-free, fried foods didn't agree with me, but that was like, deep fried foods. Stir fry never bothers me, unless I have too much rice. I would suspect something other than the oil....
  17. penguin
    I called the dr's office but his nurse hasn't called me back yet. My doctor is fantastic but he's in a gigantic practice that's very busy so it's not as speedy as I'd like. I'll take it though, for a good doctor... I went to walgreens and asked their pharmacist and he came up with a liquid adult iron but the bottle had been opened so he couldn't sell...
  18. penguin
    I had/have all of the symptoms except constipation. Man, sometimes I would wish for it though! I had inconclusive bloodwork and dietary response and that's how I was dx'ed. I'm back on wheat for now though since I have an endo in August. Dr. says I'll always have to be gluten-free anyway since I'm duh intolerant, but we want to see if there is damage...
  19. penguin
    I have never been to a BK where I haven't seen at least one onion ring in with the fries. The scooping bins are right next to eachother.
  20. penguin
    Like 2kids4me said, the body is complex and relies on all of it's systems and organs to function. It is also true that it's genetics, not a flaw in the liver function. Everything she said is true. In the case of celiac, there are two genes that have been shown for celiac. That's why the autoimmune response happens in celiacs. There are both environmental...
  21. penguin
    The immune response happens in the blood, not the liver. The immune system consists of bone marrow, lymph nodes, the spleen, and the thymus gland. In an autoimmune disorder such as celiac, the immune system gets activated because it reacts to a substance (in this case, gluten) that it would normally ignore. Antibodies are produced and lymphocites get activated...
  22. penguin
    I think wine works too, from what my mom and sister have said.
  23. penguin
    Inflammation isn't the issue with Celiacs. It's an autoimmune reacton in which the body thinks the wheat is poison and attacks both the gluten and the villi of the small intestine. Antibodies are produced by the body in this reaction. So really, the digestive system has little to do with the reaction to the gluten itself, it just gets the effects of the reaction...
  24. penguin
    My grandmother's chili mac is goulash. I don't know where the heck she learned it, because it is one of two things she can make halfway decent Yes! That movie was so cute! I love that they named the hedge Steve. In my family we have a tradition of naming cars and plants, I don't see why I can't name a pot
  25. penguin
    I made "goop" for dinner Or at least that's what DH called it...part of the problem was that I only had half of my food unpacked and I had less than a cup of rice left I did onion, garlic, smoked sausage, lemon pepper, chili powder, paprika, 2ish spoons of tomato paste, rice, and then I used onion soup as the liquid for the rice. It turned out pretty...
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