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  1. eKatherine
    I feel kind of weird about this. You see, all these snack and junk foods that are tugging at your heartstrings are basically new to the diet - on any regular basis - in the past generation or so. I am 51. My mother chose to cook us meals with natural whole foods, so I never had any of that stuff except on rare occasions, I grew up just fine, and I don't miss...
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    Although the American medical establishment is obsessed with the idea that a low cholesteol level is good and a really, really low cholesterol is lots lots better, Japanese researchers have found that a low cholesterol level can predispose a person for certain types of strokes.
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    ARCHIVED Applebee's

    eKatherine replied to Lisa's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    The cheesy bacon tavern chips are very attractive, but it was one of the worst things I've ever eaten, and they were free for me.
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    Your body uses protein to build muscles, but you burn either carbohydrates or fat as fuel. So if you're not getting enough energy calories, adding excess protein is going to make you sluggish. You can add fat to your diet for calories, but there will be an adjustment period if you're used to getting your energy from carbohydrates.
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    I used to work at my former night job with a guy in his 20s who either had terrible health problems, or the worst lifestye in the world, or both. He had a day job with really good medical benefits, and he had seen more specialists and kept finding more tests for them to do. The doctors were starting to feel that more tests were not going to find the source...
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    Disodium EDTA (and other forms of EDTA) are unrelated to salt.
  7. eKatherine
    I've found that when somebody (in my case, my now ex-husband) gives you a long list of your faults and shortcomings "for your own good", it tells you as much as if not more about them than about you.
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    I always wash my rice, but I use Asian types, which tend to be dusty with fine starch remaining from the polishing process. If you don't wash it it can cook up very gummy.
  9. eKatherine
    Mmacartney, you say your school must accomodate celiacs with a 504 plan, but then you say your children do not have active celiac. Does that mean you've gotten a doctor to give them a celiac diagnosis in order to get the 504 plan in place? Aren't you concerned that being labeled as 'celiac' may haunt them later in life, especially since they may never develop...
  10. eKatherine
    I found a few mainstream sites that said something like this: Open Original Shared Link I also found several alternative medicine sites that were selling information about their crohn's diet.
  11. eKatherine
    My experience is that guys with backgrounds in sports like track have an impossible time finding a reasonable pace on the treadmill. They always start way too fast for their present condition. I recommend you start with a 15 minute mile, and check your pulse every 15 minutes. This will feel really slow, but it is important not to overdo it, as overdoing...
  12. eKatherine
    They give you unnecessary tests when you go to the ER to make it look like they're doing something, while running your bill up high enough to give you a financial incentive to think twice before going to the ER next time.
  13. eKatherine
    My feeling is that it didn't come out of the blue. It was a result of overeating gluten for many years, and during that time you probably had a number of annoying minor symptoms that you ignored, as they didn't seem related. That's how it was for me. It's amazing what clears up when you go gluten-free. I've been gluten-free for two years and I only realized...
  14. eKatherine
    My recommendation is that you type the document up in Word. That's what I did. If you want it on a website, buy a domain, use simple html, and learn as you go. Publish each recipe on a separate page.People will be able to access all the recipes, but only print them up one at a time. That would make it possible for you to sell copies of the book to recoup...
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    I buy white rice pasta in an Asian market. There are a number of types sold under a variety of different names. I am looking at three different bags I have in front of me: Rice vermicelli (laifen) bun bo hue xanh (hieu bong lua) - cooks up like regular spaghetti Guilin rice vermicelli, bun bo hue soi lon - cooks up like thin spaghetti or vermicelli Rice sticks...
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    ARCHIVED Body For Life

    eKatherine replied to SofiEmiMom's topic in Sports and Fitness

    I was on that program a long time ago, before I discovered my gluten intolerance. It worked for me for a while. First, you have to exercise intensely. But the real problem is that it is basically a fat-free diet. The fat content was so low that eventually I was unable to stay on it. Most people are unable to stay fat-free for extended lengths of time, as...
  17. eKatherine
    It's not impossible that something other than gluten was the offending allergen that set you off. You should probably have it checked out.
  18. eKatherine
    You just can't make dough with the same handling characteristics as gluten dough, so those flaky layers won't happen.
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    You are saying that without a firm diagnosis of celiac, that insurance companies will refuse to pay for the diagnostic tests that are required to provide that diagnosis in the first place. That makes no sense. Blood tests and endoscopy are not a treatment anyway. The only treatment is diet, which the insurance companies won't cover. A month is probably...
  20. eKatherine
    If you were able to get them to provide gluten-free meals for your kids, would you really be able to trust them?
  21. eKatherine
    He seems to be saying that there are only two possible conditions: sub-clinical intolerance, showing no symptoms, and celiac, showing many severe ones. Clearly many people have symptoms before they would be diagnosed as celiac. You don't go to bed one day unaware of your intolerance (because you are having no symptoms) and wake up the next with full-blown...
  22. eKatherine
    Nobody's going to give you any grief on your diet unless you let them. There's no reason for you to go through a list of test results with acquaintances and relatives. They know nothing about celiac and the medical implications of different types of testing. "Gluten makes me sick, so I don't eat it anymore" should be good enough for them. If it's not good...
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    So what will you do if the next test you run comes up negative, as it may? Would you keep eating gluten until you were deathly ill with permanent damage to your body?
  24. eKatherine
    I use Suave Daily Clarifying Conditioner. I've never called them on it, but it has no natural ingredients on the list. Wheat protein is too expensive for this product.
  25. eKatherine
    It's an extreme diet for people with severe food-related health problems. Often someone will stay on the diet until their health starts to improve, upon which time they are able to begin adding back food that they can now tolerate.
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