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  1. gfp
    True though be careful not to overdo fresh fruit or like a non celiac it will make you loose although not in a bad way but its easy when you start off yo identify the loose stool and D as being gluten related. Herein lies the problem for many. I know lots of people do have other intolerances and allergies but also many don't and hidden gluten and CC...
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    This is the article but as for peer review I don't know. Open Original Shared Link
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    Sue, I agree with Lori ... maybe its meant to be and maybe it isn't but you both obviously love each other and life without gluten can be a different life for those who's moods are controlled by it. You sound like you have invested so much and if he truly is a different person then perhaps there is still hope. I had severe communications problems with...
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    Nantzie havn't tried but your theory sounds sound. The whole think with the soap and water is washing it away not just moving it about.
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    I once read a case study of some Norwegian Dr. who spent 7 years proving some poor kid had coeliac then had the audacity to publish. I very much doubt he would have spent 7 years of gluten challenges on himself or his own kid!
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    Yes but that doesn't mean they buy the caramel coloring from Mexico .... however I'd expect they buy it from the US due to shipping costs but .....you never know, it might come from East Asia if they can provide it cheaper.
  7. gfp
    All too true ... herein lies the problem as a diagnosis ... which combined with the fact you have to deliberatly damage one of your bodies important organs is pretty much why I think its a bad idea. The very diagnosis itself is based on you damaging one of your bodies important organs and deliberatly at that? and after all that then you have to hope...
  8. gfp
    Although you can't kill it you can do some things.... gluten is soluble in alcohol so using an industrial alcohol cleaner is probably a good idea, its also antiseptic and kills germs ... Do NOT USE NEAR NAKED FLAME, HOT HOBS etc. etc.! As for doorknobs... I see your point and its possible, I worry about public transport where people are eating sandwiches...
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    Not unless you know the real reason .... the NHS pays something like £5.25 for a gluten-free loaf which you can buy in the shops for £1.50 so the gluten-free manufacturers cream a whole load off the NHS with CUK support... Most coeliacs have a yearly subscription so they only pay the £80 or whatever a year .... In reality wouldn't it be easier to...
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    However the local support groups can be very good and run by coelaics as opposed to some director who doesn't have celiac disease. The problem i have is that I see CUK rather negatively and I don't want my money going to support what I believe to be bad for UK coelaics.... When they use that money to lobby actively against better labelling or to bury...
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    Jeff, as a tool as to whether you need a gluten-free diet the biopsy is practically useless and for seeing if you should continue worse than useless. At the same time if it required for other purposes then you are going to have to make yourself very ill. If its for insurance purposes and you need to make sure its positive then you have the problem of making...
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    This is not unusual.... its just a complete pain ....I mean its bad enough in adults when you can feel yourself and know what you have eating so it is 10x worse for mothers! This is why as an adult you need to keep a food diary but this gives me a rather cunning plan..... You can use this to your advantage ... tell the kindergarten she is having problems...
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    Nikki, my opinion of CUK isn't very good to say the least. Not the support groups of volunteers, by CUK I mean the HQ organisation. CUK are self appointed and on a gravy train for life so long as they control. They campaigned against better labelling based on the fact "we" would be too stupid to understand and should use their directory. For...
  14. gfp
    Strictly speaking (and I realise how stupid this sounds) they can only call it gluten free if it contains gluten naturally and has been reduced. Yes ... I know! A cornb tortilla cannot be called gluten free if its 100% corn BUT if they add a little wheat starch they can call it gluten free .... See what I wrote above.... First I agree on you 100% but...
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    When I was working in certain dry countires we used to make beer from a german baby suppliment which was basically malted corn and every time I went back to the UK and drank beer I got the worst hangovers after 1-2 pints...
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    Its hard to say.... In europe its common for dextrines and deriviatives to be wheat derived wheras In N. America its very very rare but its only based on economics. Europe has a wheat surplus but not corn wheras the US has corn and wheat ... No legislation prevents them using wheat so it must just be economics... but based on the dextrine history I would...
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    nini .. try the book by Alan Carr (usually priced about the same price as 1 packet of cigs) I have no interest in them selling the book other than helping someone who helped me! What you realised (I bolded) ... because it never did help and you realise that now. Whatever it took you to realise that if you could bottle and sell you'd make millions! ...
  18. gfp
    Sense of humor... always a good sign ... Dude, on the food if your broke I have a few suggestions.... Get a big bag of cheap rice and do east asian.... with just a bare minimum of meat you can extend it with gluten-free soy sauce, garlic etc. and cheap vegetables...you can use some pinaple juice to marinade some and then a bit of cornstarch to make...
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    LOL doesn't help though when its a present .... Lots of caramel coloring in the UK, Europe and Austrialia is not gluten-free ... there is a particualr case involving cider where the manufacturers keep changing their minds as to if its gluten-free or not... The letter states strongbow cider is gluten-free. so I sent a letter and asked if the caramel...
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    If not I use 60/40 buckwheat flour and rice flour .. works really well but I have to remember not to have it too often.
  21. gfp
    This is what I tend to think although excepting the word 'addiction'. If you replace that with dependance ... I think a true addiction is when you can no longer do it in moderation and it becomes all or nothing .... In these cases then its basically sometihng for life... you do or you don't.... This is why I was so prickly about the definitions...
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    ARCHIVED Bruises

    gfp replied to taz sharratt's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I guess Im just weird but I almost never bruise, I can fall down stairs and not show a bruise ...? Ive been like this forever ... and even when I break bones the bruising is so minimal Dr's just dismiss it and i have to play along just to get xray'd ... If anyone has an explanation I'm open to any suggestions?
  23. gfp
    LOL Ilived in Norway 2 yrs but seriously Klonepin OR alcohol no wonder you are craving .... the physchotropics so weird things with alcohol... like it catches you all at once... and incombination with any Klonepin its a recipee for addiction... I mean klonepin by itself is addictive enough but combined with the alcohol already amplified by physchotropics...
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    DingoGirl, now I see the post.... since I know a bit of your medical history I can guess a few of the drugs.... seriously physchotropic drugs and alcohol are pretty much a sure fire recipee for disaster... Klonopin and alcohol is a pretty effective way to screw up your liver nor should it be used in anyone with a history of .. heck, im just repeating the...
  25. gfp
    Ahh go-on its not hard you just wrap the word "quote" in square brackets at the front and "/quote" at the end of each quoted bit (can''t write it else it will quote ...) you can be fancier but that will get you off to a good start. Some things are easier and others harder. Fresh produce is easier I think, unless you live in the sticks in the US and...
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