Jump to content

gfp

Advanced Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,054

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Events

Blogs

Celiac.com - Your Trusted Resource for Celiac Disease & Gluten-Free Living Since 1995

Everything posted by gfp

  1. gfp
    Thanks and you are of course correct .... I guess I'm a little too gullible in the "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" ... I keep resolving to carry energy bars and stuff but everything at work is always SO last minute and SO little planning... I might go in in morning and then at 10am my boss might tell me I'm going to the other side...
  2. gfp
    Paulina, You sum it up perfectly! I'm actually more desperate for work than money... I got myself into such a rut last year with my relationship falling apart that I ended up doing something I didn't really want to do for a change of scene and to get me out of Paris which had too many "twisted" memories. Now the work is so draining I just struggle...
  3. gfp
    Pliny lived to 80 and was so obese he had to be carried ... but these are exceptions not average life expectancies. People had 10-12 Children and 2-3 lived ... many many people died in infancy. I have a family tree on my father's side back to 1218... his cousin was a professional genealogist when you look back at the lives even 200 years ago its incredible...
  4. gfp
    Taking the last question last .. Its a two parter .... 1/ Increased Cancer Risk of the digestive system is partly a direct result of villi being destroyed or more accurately new villi being grown. Cancer (from my understanding) is caused at cell mitosis (division). So the more the villi are forced to divide cells to regrow increases the chance of one...
  5. gfp
    Thanks, like you say its the 'getting ugly part'. We recently had to put in a bid for some Olympics related work which involves a whole set of "heath and safety" compliance, non of which we do of course but perhaps it would provide a vehicle to bring this in? I know companies before (I didn't work in the UK for many years) insisted on Lunch breaks (as...
  6. gfp
    Lunch has never been easy at work, the owner will often make snide comments if we take lunch but not allout ban us taking it. (Snide comments like Your obviously not commited to the company) Regardless of this he takes lunch! Now we have a new regime ... he has decided lunch is unhealthy ... and decided breakfast is not (some thing makes me think due...
  7. gfp
    There is always occams razor. It could be that antibiotics allowed a yeast infection that .... .... or it could be that he had a blood infection that proved very tough (your wording is final week of antibiotics indicating a long course) and that the blood infection was what tipped the balance. I'm not quite sure what you are saying here? Are...
  8. gfp
    Going back to what I posted earlier, this depends on how we define celiac. Or it was celiac all along and just one symptom did not manifest itself strongly enough. I can't accept that one person is celiac and another not based on where a sample is taken or when or who examines it? Imagine you get a biopsy and its marginal and your classed...
  9. gfp
    Hey rant away and i don't think your "That Guy" (and you made me laugh) However you might feel better about it if you realise that you don't choose Mac n Cheese but are given it. Much as you i do feel a bit of resentment that I have to buy "hippy food" grown by people who eschew all artificial fertilisers except when growing cannabis? Spot the...
  10. gfp
    I feel quite the opposite about this, Paleolithic man had little option but food combine (or more accurately de-combine). Prior to the invention of wheat and portable starchy foods man had to follow the herds ... in the good times you kill a deer or large bovine and eat nothing else, in the lean times you grub about for roots and tubers ... the odd magot...
  11. gfp
    This is really true.... we learn to like certain foods and dislike others. Some people will never like cilantro or quinoa sure, but everyone can teach their body not to react by cravings for junk food. Junk food is a drug.. no different to tobacco in many way's yet millions of people who thought they could NEVER EVER quit smoking do so every year! Like...
  12. gfp
    I'm not really arguing with anything you said here, just adding really.... Again this ALL hinges on the definition of celiac. We have a sort of catch-22 diagnostically because no clear definition exists that is accepted by all 'experts'. (and I put experts in quotes deliberatly) As I said earlier, the GI has one definition and the neurologist another...
  13. gfp
    A little more time now... What I tried to express in the earlier post is that the whole immune system is a mixture of genetic and learned response. It is in many ways a parallel to the nature vs nurture debate for psychology. There are undoubtedly elements of both but no clear distinction of which is dominant. Additionally, we have a vague...
  14. gfp
    This assumes its a two player game ... i.e. gene and gluten. This may be the case but perhaps its not. Instead .. what if its a complex series of circumstances ...Medicine really doesn't seem to understand celiac disease. So many people may be genetically pre-disposed to a heart attack.. but the same person (or identical twins) living different lives...
  15. gfp
    I'm kinda with CarlaB on this.... What causes celiac disease? We know there are genetic pre-dispositions but there must be more... The thing is it might not be a single thing .... it could be a variety of bacteria that do some damage and causes a trigger... and that in the genetically pre-disposed people this reaction is worse. So gluten might never...
  16. gfp
    This went through my head too. Perhaps the hard work will be better directed in this direction ??
  17. gfp
    hehe .... nope but thanks ... That is really the reality.... See I wouldn't even trust the sausage because of cross contamination.... like you I'd rather improvise safe stuff from a gas station or convenience store. The bummer is (pun slightly intended) ... whenever I'm pushed to convenience food is absolutely the wrong time to get...
  18. gfp
    Well I'm not sure where you are so its hard to be more specific... In general I see you are going to have to do some work to get this across to the father ... and I guess you are understandably worried about time she spends with her biological father ... There seem to be two avenues.. 1/ Get a MD to make sure that the father doesn't get to see the...
  19. gfp
    Well this is perfectly normal. First off I am the first to admit what I miss is the convenience! However given time you will really stop missing specific foods so much. In the same way you find you just miss out aisles at the supermarket ... but the mixed in situation is a pain! Imagine you don't like seafood.... you just miss that section without...
  20. gfp
    All eating out is a risk.... fast food is always the biggest because of the way its prepared. McDo vs burger king vs .... I just don't think holds any weight. All of these companies at corporate level don't give two hoots about you or dd. McDo gets a lot of stick .. well because its McDo's... but it doesn't mean the others are not as bad... McDo...
  21. gfp
    Hey .. it sounded spot on to me! Let me rant my own .... 1/ If it doesn't look like food don't eat it... (Tins, packets don't look like food... A carrot, chicken looks like food to me) 2/ Too much of anything is bad for you Almonds a great/Almonds are bad... ?? Some almonds are part of a diet are probably good Water/wine/coconut oil...
  22. gfp
    Without antibiotics you would pretty likely not be here. Are antibiotics overused? Yes but they are not some evil entity (as others have suggested on this forum). Antibiotics along with vaccinations are what allows our average life expectancy to be something over our 30's. Much as they are overused they are critical for many life saving reasons...
  23. gfp
    Lisa, as Fiddle-Faddle pointed out be meticulous with spelling and grammar. You need to get at least one other person, preferably several to read it before you send it. I agree also that you must not sound "whiny", this is not about feelings it is about fact as YOU present it. However: You are fighting a bureaucratic system, they do not CARE they...
  24. gfp
    ken is correct, its board rules... but nothing stops me posting it ... (since I'm nothing to do with it) Open Original Shared Link
  25. gfp
    Maybe you can help me understand the REVERSE ??? (In all seriousness) I really have a problem believing someone doesn't know how pasta is made .... don't get me wrong I know lots of people don't, I just don't understand how they can have got to a certain age and not asked? I know I am a foody... but I have always wanted to know what is in food from...
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

NOTICE: This site places This site places cookies on your device (Cookie settings). on your device. Continued use is acceptance of our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.