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  1. eKatherine
    Might be panic attacks.
  2. eKatherine
    How about the symptoms of regular menopause for comparison? I had hot flashes for more than a year before I missed a period, and it was about 3 years after that before my periods stop. I'm still having occasional flashes, but only when I forget to take my vitamin E. I have read that exercise-induced amennorhea is caused by too little fat in the diet. They...
  3. eKatherine
    Keep in mind that donating marrow is not a simple procedure, it is a serious operation. People have died. If your health is fragile you shouldn't even consider it. I wouldn't think about donating unless a blood relative of mine was in need.
  4. eKatherine
    I live in Southern Maine. Do you have ezpass? The tollbooths are a heck of a lot better if you can jump right past everybody waiting in line for change. I usually take the commuter rail to Boston rather than drive.
  5. eKatherine
    Most people in general, regardless of their dietary preferences, have avoided learning about the food they are eating. If I think vegetarians and vegans rarely do this, it isn't saying that I think people who eat meat every do it either. In fact, I think that people in general avoid this information for fear of having to change their diet - a great and fearful...
  6. eKatherine
    I live in Maine, but getting down to Boston on a Friday would be kind of hard for me until school lets out.
  7. eKatherine
    rotflmao
  8. eKatherine
    So what sort of evidence do you accept? Are you saying your sole source of nutrition info is peer-reviewed medical journals? That's difficult to believe. I've relied on books like The Nutrition Facts Desk Reference. The nutritional composition of food is basically known. All a person need do is make the calculations. You have not, and you did not offer...
  9. eKatherine
    I know it sounds counterintuitive, but I've found that if I eat only 3 eggs I am less hungry before lunch than if I eat 3 eggs and toast. Try it, it might work for you.
  10. eKatherine
    What sort of evidence to the contrary would draw your attention? The issue is not that a vegetarian diet can't be healthy. Generally vegetarians who eat a variety of foods will end up with an adequate diet. The problem is that a vegan diet may well not be balanced if the vegan is not inclined to do research on their intake of protein and other components...
  11. eKatherine
    These two are pretty much always accompanied in the ingredients list by "monosodium glutamate", but they are distinct and separate chemical compounds. I didn't mention that because she was only interested in the word "disodum".
  12. eKatherine
    "Disodium" is not what you should be avoiding. You need to know the entire name of the chemical compound, not just the first half. "Disodum inosinate" and "disodium guanylate" are two additives often found in cheap soup bases and canned broths. I don't know anything about them but that they seem to be a sign that the product doesn't taste good anyway.
  13. eKatherine
    I'll certainly be waiting to hear how it worked out.
  14. eKatherine
    Lister, you need to chill. Obsessing with your health hasn't improved it a bit. Rather, it's turned you into a hypochondriac, a person who worries constantly, who can think of nothing but your health issues and making minute-to-minute changes in your diet and routine. Your doctor probably thinks you've gone off the deep end. It is worry that rules your life...
  15. eKatherine
    My degree in chemistry tells me that an ion is an ion, and nature does not undetectably balance out naturally-occurring components in foods in order to be convenient for us. The idea that msg is essentially different from naturally occurring glutamates in some way is not scientific. The lists I have seen of symptoms that are (not could be, but ARE) due...
  16. eKatherine
    My father had toenail fungus all his adult life until they removed his toenails. Another sign he's probably got celiac.
  17. eKatherine
    Here's the scoop: even though the store-finder button on the website told me it was not available in my area, I found the mac and cheese and the penne in the ever-expanding gluten-free section of my local supermarket. I cooked up the cheddar-style one. The verdict? First of all, the sauce/assembly recipe was wrong. Although it called for 1/4 cup of 'milk...
  18. eKatherine
    3 grams of msg is a HUGE dose. 3 grams of salt on an empty stomach will probably make as many people sick. But only 30% reacted with a meal? Glutamate is glutamate, just as chloride is chloride. We don't eat it straight, just as we don't eat salt from a spoon, and we shouldn't eat sugar from a spoon. We dilute it back down when using it. Some people are...
  19. eKatherine
    True that the FDA is pretty ineffectual right now, but it's better than no regulatory agency. There is science behind these reports, I have read some of them. The people with these websites are making money too, why should we trust them? We in fact do know what is in food. There are no hidden ingredients in natural glutamate-containing foods that act to...
  20. eKatherine
    "Yuck" tells me you didn't like it, but it doesn't give me any idea of what it does taste like. Anybody?
  21. eKatherine
    It looks more like condensed soup. But you'd have to make it fresh to keep it from setting up when it chills. Sweet rice flour doesn't tend to harden like cornstarch does.
  22. eKatherine
    I read the label on the store brand rice cakes I have been buying. It says they are produced in a facility where almonds, soy, and corn are processed, but does not give the manufacturer's name.
  23. eKatherine
    Open Original Shared Link Keep in mind that glutamates occur naturally in foods, and naturally occurring glutamates are chemically indistinguishable from those that are added as msg. Open Original Shared Link A more recent study showed that only a small percentage of people who thought they were extremely sensitive to msg had reactions when given...
  24. eKatherine
    For those of you who like it, what kind of cheese or cheese product did it most closely resemble? For those of you who thought it was gross, what was it about it that tasted so gross? I'm a bit hesitant to order a bunch of stuff I might end up throwing out.
  25. eKatherine
    I suggest you invest in a Japanese-type programmable rice cooker that will have your rice ready when you want it, keep it warm for hours, and can also be used to stew things. I have a zojirushi and a little teakettle I travel with. I can make tea and rice for any meal, just like the Japanese do. I bring both brown and white rice with me for variety, but you...
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