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    I'm sure a support group will really help..... Meanwhile .... Honestly start off with minimal flour substitutes ... they work differently and can be really frustrating when your starting off .... baking is more a science than an art (IMHO) .. as a scientist I find all baking frustrating because its like work making a roux is easy like other...
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    eKatherine has descibed my meaning exactly... I was speaking about "The Fall" which was brought up by Taliz in her quote that and specifically the Catholic chatecism states (underlining mine) As jerseyangle has pointed out this is not really the place to discuiss religion ...I am simply putting that comment into the context I meant it. Literal...
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    Yeah I am OK with the generic omneparazole ... its a tiny different to Nexium (just how the molecule is bound if I remember) .. problem is Nexium is so expensive you don't wanna just throw it out.. the generic stuff isn't much cheaper either but it doesn't give me anywhere near the same adverse reactions (basically all over body headache, shoulders and spine...
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    Erm well presumably you do that in the mod forum? but that is not whay I am saying.... what I'm saying is this board has a set of 3 rules that are non negotiable and if you ask for clarification of these rules then Scott refuses to discuss them other than pm ... Secondly most or many of the mods are breaking the rules... it is one rule for some people...
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    From what Ursula said she was banned for being requested to desist and then not desisting. I think the 2nd user was an extension of this coupled perhaps with her confusion about not being able to log in. I think its pretty obvious she was breaking #3 on a pretty regular basis. The rest of it is pretty moot really? She was asked not to...
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    Amy Lauraj has given you some excellent start info. The best thing I can say is beleive the most paranoid and then work from there! Being gluten-free is a lot like riding a bike ... when you have never ridden one it seems horribly complicated and night impossible but when you have been riding one for years its second nature. In the learning...
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    I doubt its gluten, I think its more of getting what you pay for....???
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    The difference is when you mix them all together and start talking about them altogether and justifying it with fictional books like the bible. (Most of the world sees the bible as fiction) ... Once you go down the christian-judaic-islamic equivalent of the promethius/pandora myth and start saying diseases are just a punishment from God then The...
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    Then how will they know that their efforts are inadequate? You can eat a steak completely raw and it won't make you ill, when you order a steak you are just professing a preference not a health reason. If a resto messes up how you want your steak or gives you diet coke instead of non diet then that indicates they are not doing enough. In the case...
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    Kristen, boy are you lucky... you enjoy cooking and know how. So many people don't. There is very little can't be made gluten free except convenience food like pizza and pasta and then you can use substitutes but there is a whole world of naturally gluten free food waiting to be discovered. Why don't you make a list of what you like and let us...
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    ARCHIVED What Do You Miss?

    gfp replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    According to the USDA cornmeal has (per cup = 122g) Real tortilla chips are just cornmeal (treated with an alkaline), water and salt. 6% fat is very low.... so I can't see how it could be the fat.
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    Firstly I doubt a nearly gluten free diet will affect your biopsy.... you only need 1 crumb thiough it may make it harder to find a good sample. Secondly why not just get a full celiac panel? Finally if you want to know how your villi are doing then you can have a biopsy without drugs, I for one wouldn't take the amnesiac cocktail they give and my...
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    Define "improve significantly"? Certainly a large percentage of patients taking psyhctropics change significantly but that doesn't mean they improve. They probably certainly complain less and are probably less assertive with their GP but that doesn't mean they have "improved significantly". Indeed some classes of anti-depressants carry a fairly well...
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    Well, I certainly didn't complain even though she was "annoying" for the simple reason she obviously "believes" Lyme is a cause or the cause of celiac. However my opinion is perhaps it is? I mean for all the threads with MD's and research we still don't know why some DQ1 people get celiac and other's don't and we don't know enough to say. This...
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    Hmmm I can't take Nexium because I'm a poster child for the adverse reactions (even though it works very well for me) but I can take generic omeprazole?????? However just as importantly I no longer need to take either. I think this is 80% being gluten-free but I also have an extra secret weapon which I use when I need that bit extra which is food...
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    Usually the best therapy for feeling down .... I think you might be aggravating it by not eating and having an empty stomach perhaps. Obviously take your GP's advice.... as well but just consider eating some bland, mainly water containing foods (like crudites) just to keep your stomach happier. You could try prescription anti-nausea...
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    Many thanks for all that research and knowledge. I took a fair amoiunt of NSID's (Ibuprofen) and the original pain has really gone. I have a funny pain tolerance though so when I say something hurts it usually really does.... my girlfriend always tells a story about me spearing my finger with some chrome flake right through the nail to the bone and...
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    Well at least its treatable Anyway, just because ots not you doesn't mean you can't keep spreading the word Also I think your observation that its frustrating because its not something you can control is a very good one.
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    ARCHIVED What Do You Miss?

    gfp replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Have you tried real latin american tortillas? But overall isn't it funny we miss junk food? Everything else is mainly WHERE we can eat not what except junk food.
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    ARCHIVED What Do You Miss?

    gfp replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    This is one thing I definately don't miss... nearly every tortilla dish tastes better and has a better texture (to me) with pure corn tortillas. If you want them bendier and can't be bothered making them then they can be brushed with water and stuck in a micro on low heat for a short time.
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    I think its pretty much endemic and pervasive to the point that most people never read a label, let alone wonder what they are eating. Before diagnosis I was firmly in the "a few additives can't hurt" camp. Just having to read labels made me aware just how much additives are in food but it goes way beyond this. Food has become a battle to sell the...
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    Of course, let me qualify because I wasn't going to add the postscript and it came out worse than I meant when I tagged it on the end. What I mean is that should be your decision. It shouldn't be up to either of us for judging someone over whether they are sending packages or not. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this war it is not a situation of ...
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    Well you can multiply this by 10 because anyone knows anyone serving in Iraq wiill forward it to them! Personally I detest Starbucks largely due to their poor coffee and putting real cofffe places out of business and I boycott them for that but a 50th hand eMail is not a good reason! Indeed, please patronise them in the US and get them to realise...
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    Hey I'm trying to moderate my inbuilt "correctness gene" here It might interest you to know I have followed her around... Kingston on Thames (bachelors degree), Paris (now) and as part of my MSc. thesis I used the XRD at Birbeck. I am for obvious reasons avoiding the US... However I don't think its fair to say stolen since Crick and Franklin...
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    ARCHIVED What Do You Miss?

    gfp replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    This describes me perfectly.... I never ate much junk food but sometimes when your friends all just wanna get something and move on it can be a pain. Don't have kids but I do make sure my girlfriend doesn't miss out with things like battered prawns or pizza and in return she doesn't bring gluten into the appartment but spending 5 hours marinading, then...
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