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  1. gfp
    Open Original Shared Link Well you don't unless you can balance them gram for gram of amino acids but I doubt you are going to change your opinion regardless of evidence. I never said being vegetarian is detrimental to onces health, I said an unbalanced diet is and that vegetarians have a bigger problem balancing the essential amino acids and...
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    Of course you do your a lady.. . now I really wish someone had given me this tip at 19 Unfortunately my idea of romantic when I was 19 left a lot to be desired. I'm sure more and more ladies will tell him the same thing.
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    firstly this is not your fault .... let me repeat that this is not your fault .. OK... you have choices. You have a slight catch-22 situation. you obviously love your mom and are an excellent daughter and you are doing what you can. However.... I personally honestly beleive that having gluten in a kitchen, crumbs on the carpet (that get circulated...
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    Well lets not knock a company for being honest... personally I prefer a we can't guarantee that platitiudes. On another thread I just said as much so I stick to tequila, white rum and the like .. avoid anything with coloring or anything derived from grain alcohol. The question of what is 'safe' and not is a personal question, noone can answer it definitively...
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    Well it all depends on what you call a negative reaction, I rather think heroine addicts have a different take:D However Ursula correct (i'm just being pedantic over this) and the lack of exorphins from gluten can conceivably give someone withdrawal and that is really the correct term as she says. However like most here I think that gluten is not good...
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    Pleae ... don't think you are bothering us .. just like Carla B says... that's why we are all here and its great you are onboard. My take on alcohol is prettty simple: 1) Distillation is a weird thing and when it concerns hundreds of compounds then its never certain, simply put if distillation produced pure alcohol (which is not possible anyway) it...
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    I think that is the point. If McDonalds volunteers the information they should make sure its accurate. They have the option of not providing it if they are unsure so when they choose to make public statements and provide fact sheets they should make sure they are accurate as if they are unsure they have the option of saying so or saying nothing. The...
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    No you are putrting the cart before the horse.... so many people are allergic to it because it is not a natural food. It is bad for people in many ways No you won't, not in moderation it just thins the blood, hundreds of thousands of people take it everyday on prescription, especially stroke victims and people who had had coronary bypasses
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    The first thing to realise is there ios no such thing as a healthy diet. If you reach 18, have 3-4 kids and die you have achieved your sole purpose. Anything else is a bonus. Everything you eat can be bad for you and everything you eat can provide nutrition but all it is doing is feeding an engine. That said, some things are worse for people than...
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    The funny thing is Americans tend to consider themselves mixed up but the same can be said for thier forebearers. Apart from my height (5'10") and a half ... I look completely Scandanavian with blonde hair and blue eyes the exception being my nose! yet my mothers sister couldn't look more Jewish with olive skin, dark eyes and black hair and the same nose...
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    The bottom line is would you trust McDonalds who have been proven in court to have lied on official statements multiple times. here is one example: Open Original Shared Link However the wording is what points inthe wrong direction for me From the other thread answered by Fromt he Offical McDo release... So before they were informed...
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    In most cases I find that being glutened actually exasperates my other sensitivities. I can usually get away with casein but not when glutened and my hay fever returns when glutened. Beer always left me feeling phlelgmy before gluten-free.... so it could be a combination of the gluten and the other things in beer or perhaps something else in the meal...
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    Have to agree, I find brands you can trust and ones you cannot. However most of all I recommend not buying anything that says "spices" or "natural flavoring" on the packet...
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    It is hard to expresss just how important lunch is with colleages. In fact if you have a restaurant de enterprise they are bound by law to proivde you with sometihng so far as I know but actually getting them to do it is another thing. The big problem I had was being expected to eat with people at lunch or business meetings and total lack of acceptance...
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    Sorry, have a meeting this AM, will get back later...
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    I honestly think this is the bottom line.... I enjoy cooking but I couldn't relax if I worried about everything and the easiest thing is just keeping the kitchen 100% gluten-free. My gluten-free has some cookies and the odd thing all in sealed jars but she will always take them away to open. The more you get into it the more you realise and in terms...
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    I think the problem is Dr.s only see the disease from afar. Having been through this yourself firsthand it is far easier to pick up on symptoms and nuances that a GP would never notice. Its ridiculous to think that in a few sessions your Dr. can even being to know your child like you do....
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    The original Irish and Scandanavians are pretty much as seperate as possible. They are closer to North African Berbers than germanic peoples having orginally migrated from present day Iraq westwards. Most germanic peoples are decended from the goths and visigoths from Sweden which includes the sterotypical Dutch, Northern German and Scandanavians...
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    The germ is the very heart of the wheat seed, surrounded by the things it needs to germinate later.
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    I agree, how does the gluten get into the ears or whatever they are called if not through nutrients carried through the shoots... it might not be gluten exactly but it must contain everything to make gluten.
  21. gfp
    All I can say is try as you might you will never stop cross contamination. I have tried it and failed and I am used to working in labs with lethal substances. I remember cooking pasta one day for a friend while I made mine gluten-free ... seperate spoons and all. While eating my pasta I found a spirili in my fusilli and it was too late. I have no...
  22. gfp
    I think your concerns for the futire are valid so I somewhat take a different viewpoint perhaps than others so far. There is no harm in getting a full suite of tests with enterolab etc. assuming you can pay have insurance etc. and if you think you will have to do this in the future then perhaps its better now. Once you start a gluten-free diet and...
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    True and apart from what is considered safe changing as I understand it the US take on starch and vegetable sugars including dextrines etc. is not because of any regualtion, simply that the commercial suppliers use corn and thier plants are set up specifically to handle it. With globalisation there is no reason for them to continue using domestic sourced...
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    Once on a camping/cycling holiday in France before I lived here I stopped with my ex in Saumur in the Loire valley. We had a wonderful day and got back to the car in order to drive to the next campsite and decided to rearrange the locks and things which held the bikes to the cycle rack. We had partially used the locks as extra tie-downs to hold the bikes...
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    Good on you... She is probably more p£$ssed that you received the attention due to you which in your case is just to be able to eat but obviously in hers is a social disorder. Good luck in your new life ... but you will find people like her everywhere. Just remember they are the ones with the social problem not you.
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