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    Celiac Haiku

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    Bread, cookies, pie, cake. Who would think they are poison? Knowledge set me free. Source: Celiac Haiku
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    This is a pretty good article that explains the December 2010 research on people with positive blood tTG or EMA blood tests and negative or Marsh 1 biopsy and its implications. Basically, because people with positive bloodwork and negative biopsy have the same metabolic markers as celiacs with full villous atrophy. The researchers recommend a gluten-free...
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    Thanks so much for sharing your story. It is an inspiration for me.

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    The thing with ANY antibody testing for sensitivity is that you have to follow up with diet. One piece of information that could be useful is absence of antibodies; however, there were people in Fine's data who were negative for anti-gliadin and still felt better gluten-free. It could be because in some people gluten seems to have an innate inflammatory...
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    Anti-TTG (anti tissue transglutaminase IgA) is a better test for celiac because it is autoimmune. Presence of anti-TTG is definitely abnormal, whereas low levels of anti-gliadin may not be. Yes, I mean I haven't seen that many people on the board post positive anti-TTG results. There are plenty of anti-gliadin as you would expect with a 60% positive...
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    Fast Food

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    Big chains I know of are Wendy's and Burger King. Wendy's is celiac heaven because the chili is gluten-free so you can get a filling meal of chili and a baked potato. I'm not crazy about the taste of BK food, but you can get the chicken salad and usually the french fries are in a dedicated fryer. Boston Market is another chain where we can eat a lot of...
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    I love Bumble Bars. Also, all the Tiger's Milk bars are gluten free except the crunch flavor. Others I eat are Larabars, Mrs. May's Trio Bars, and Kind bars.
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    I often get asked about Enterolab, as I don't hold their anti-gliadin stool testing in high regard. Dr. Fine's story is pretty much on his website. He is a published expert on microscopic colitis. He started suspecting that in some patients the colitis was caused by an autoimmune celiac-like reaction. He was disappointed in the inaccurate serum tests...
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    Shopping can be overwhelming so I always tell new celiacs to shop the outside of the store and stick to simple foods. Label-reading will take a little practice and research. It's easy to tell that a banana or a potato is gluten-free. I detour around the bakery section. I feel like an invisible cloud of gluten is hovering in the air. I mostly live...
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    1. You're going to get glutened occasionally no matter how careful you are. It's OK. Pick yourself up and keep going. 2. Don't worry about what others think. There will be people who say you are worrying too much about cross-contamination. You might meet celiacs or people who don't stick to the diet very well and say it's fine to cheat (it's not)....
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    Recipe Sites!

    Skylark posted a blog entry in Skylark's Blog

    Here are my favorite cooking blogs for gluten-free recipes. Gluten-free crockpot recipes Open Original Shared Link Gluten-free Bay Open Original Shared Link Hey, that tastes good! Open Original Shared Link Kill.the.gluten Open Original Shared Link Tartelette - French Pastry with regular and gluten-free versions Open Original Shared...
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    Tonight I'm going out so I brought a sandwich on Udi's to work. Tomorrow... Chicken legs, baked in the oven with a little butter and lots of Tabasco sauce (brand name is gluten-free unless you are too sensitive for vinegar). It tastes kind of like hot wings. Brown rice in the cooker, and I'll steam some broccoli.
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    It definitely says it's for research. "Even one donation could aid in the researcher's effort of developing more effective testing or finding a cure." I imagine they need plasma from celiacs who are newly diagnosed and still eating gluten though. There wouldn't be antibodies from folks on a gluten-free diet. "Once the products are successfully collected...
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    I was super-tired and threw some chicken and stuff in a pot. I was too lazy to brown the meat or saute onions and garlic, just threw it in a Dutch oven and hoped for the best. It came out really yummy. 5 or 6 frozen chicken breasts. Whatever you can arrange in a layer in the Dutch Oven so the wine and tomatoes mostly cover them. Fresh is fine too and...
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    Oh yes, but thanks for checking. They are soaking tonight and I'm going to prep all the veggies and ham and toss it in a bowl in the fridge. I agree that 3 hours is nowhere near long enough in a crockpot for dried beans. I'll rinse the beans tomorrow and put everything but the tomatoes in the crockpot on low all day. It should hardly take any time in...
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    I'm going to try this navy bean soup recipe in the crockpot tomorrow. It looks really good. Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce is gluten-free so no issues with ingredients. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Navy-Bean-Soup-I/Detail.aspx
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    I've heard this too, but my understanding it it's a matter of your body shifting digestive enzymes around. Vegetarians can gradually reintroduce meat, starting with broth or small amounts of it. The digestive enzymes are no different for gluten and non-gluten grains so that's not what's going on. We also can't gradually re-introduce gluten. If you're sensitive...
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    You are gluten intolerant. What happens is that the "assault" on your immune system stops when you stop eating gluten. If you are intolerant and try to go back to wheat, you get freshly activated T cells that make you quite sick. Remember, it is not unusual at all to go between foods. Think of something you might not have eaten for a few months, like...
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    I bought a Costco chicken a couple days ago and made soup from the bones. I boiled some of the strong, dark green stalks from the outside of celery with the chicken, and took it out along with the bones. I picked off the meat, cut up a little breast I had set aside and added veggies. I was experimenting with different veggies and added a couple leeks...
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    You know of BRK? Been reading his blog for years, as much for the wonderful Airman Howell stories as anything else. He's a great writer and that's his personal blog.
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    I'm going to try this easy-looking chicken cacciatore recipe. I'll probably have it with brown rice and some chard or spinach. http://www.dphowell.com/2010/11/27/chicken-cacciatore/
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    Heh. I think you're encouraging a bad habit.
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    Perhaps people who are more sensitive than the norm and feel left out need to work hard to make themselves available for clinical trials. Recruiting people willing to participate in clinical trials is brutally hard, and keeping people in the trial even harder. With all the bad behavior I've seen from people in studies it's a wonder we get clinical data...
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    Suggesting that you should analyze something for which you have no data is equally stupid, if not more so. People who drop from studies are ALWAYS reported as part of the analysis. That's why I mentioned them. Are you suggesting it would be preferable to invent data??? In a paper, you report exactly what you see. "Subject #4 was feeling unwell and declined...
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    There is medical data where they fed celiacs 50 ppm gluten and did biopsies and there was no damage. They've even tested celiacs eating 200 ppm Codex wheat starch breads and some were perfectly fine. Nobody seems to pay attention to the handful of people who always drop out of these studies because the 50 ppm food makes them feel sick. On the Codex study...
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