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  1. Skylark
    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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    To be honest, my usual reaction to a difficult manager is to start very quietly looking for a new job. If you think your boss is looking to use health issues to fire you, the moment you start FMLA he/she will start looking for something else. If I were in your situation, as well as looking for a new job, I would talk to a disability lawyer. Around here...
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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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    Well, if it went away gluten-free and returned when you ate questionnable meals, I'd sure be looking hard at the gluten. People with neuro symptoms from gluten often react to tiny amounts. Also, has your B12 been tested?
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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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    I've also had bread fall from too much liquid. I find gluten-free bread is much touchier about the amount of fluid than wheat bread. The dough also tends to be moister, which means I can't follow my old and well-developed wheat baking instincts.
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    So gluten-free didn't help with the bloating one way or the other? Were you tested for lactose intolerance? It could also be fructose malabsorption. Funny you say the gluten-free diet is a recipe for depression. Gluten makes me depressed! I do think you need to do a little more research about untreated celiac before you decide to go back to consuming...
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    My shellfish allergy was uncomfortable but not dangerous. I would get some oral allergy itchy throat and then I would be noticeably lightheaded. It only took twice for me to pin the reaction to shellfish and then I stopped eating them on my doctor's advice. We were concerned that I would sensitize more. If your reaction was dangerous, it would be much...
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    Yes. During my elimination diet, I identified cow dairy, soy, wheat, and eventually gluten as problem foods. I am more sensitive to wheat than rye or barley, probably because I have some degree of wheat allergy as well as gluten intolerance. I had also been allergic to shellfish and had not eaten them for over ten years. After a while gluten-free, maybe...
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    May I suggest you read some of the very detailed immunological work on celiac disease? It is autoimmune and the mechanisms are reasonably well understood. As far as celiac triggers, it appears that things that cause a lot of cytokine production tend to trigger it. Once celiac is triggered, your body learns to make the antibodies and those are lifelong...
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    If you feel like caffeine might help, go for it! If nothing else, a favorite tea might be soothing. Red Bull has lots of B vitamins too and some people find it helpful for glutenings. I don't get crying jags often. For me it's a weird jumpiness, like suddenly I'll have this spurt of adrenaline and be super-worried over nothing. It will happen in...
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    Oh, yes. It can be gluten. Last time I got into a little gluten I had only a mild stomachache, and actually thought I got away with it. 24 hours later I suffered through three days of anxiety attacks. I wish I was as lucky as you to only feel bad for an hour or two! I have to remind myself it's the gluten for days on end. It can make me depressed...
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    And you think that's unique to SA? LOL! I've had people tell me I could eat pasta because it's made of "flour", not wheat. The expression they get when you ask what the flour is made of and they figure it out is genuinely funny.
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    You might not handle the sugars in legumes well. Have you tried Beanzyme? It's a gluten-free version of Beano.
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    I'll eat fries at In-n-Out Burger, but there is nothing on their menu that is deep fried other than the fries, which they make on the spot from fresh potatoes. They're good about keeping the lettuce wrapped burgers away from crumbs too, if you tell them you have a wheat allergy. Other than that, french fries are gluten roulette for me.
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