So my husband and I were down in Southern California visiting family (just a one hour flight) and although I was pretty well prepared food-wise, trips like this could bring terror to someone who is just starting out on a gluten free diet. Leaving home when newly diagnosed as gluten intolerant can be a daunting thought to a […]
One of the symptoms of gluten intolerance, it turns out, is malnutrition. Yup, you read that correctly. The definition of malnutrition is: The lack of adequate nutrition resulting from insufficient food, unbalanced diet, or defective assimilation. Defective assimilation? What is that and how can that make someone lack adequate nutrition? You may think to yourself, […]
What common condiment contains gluten? It still surprises people when I tell them. When I embarked on my gluten free diet, I had to start reading labels to see if gluten was hidden in some of the foods I was eating. I had heard that there were some foods that had ingredients like “natural flavors” […]
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So, after I freaked out about eliminating gluten from my diet, I realized that there were many choices out there regarding the various alternatives for finding gluten free bread. At first I thought that I might have to start making my own bread since I didn’t know if gluten free bread would be readily available […]
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“You need to eliminate gluten from your diet,” my Doctor said to me. Wait, what!?! When I heard those words, that I had to go gluten free and follow a gluten free diet, I thought to myself, “How on Earth am I going to do that? I love bread, I eat sandwiches all the time […]
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Shelley on December 31st, 2011
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