8/15/07 I have a bias that celiac friendly websites are more useful than gluten free diet books. Shelley Case’s Gluten-Free Diet demonstrated to me that we need both.

  Books like Gluten-Free Diet help us with the “big ideas” of gluten free living:

For example, the section titled “Gluten Free Meal Planning”(pages 141-149) gave me enough very specific ideas how to feed myself for several months and referred to other pages in the book would give me the detailed information that I would need to implement those plans.

The pages on Oats (pages 21-29) featured “position statements” from several different organizations and enabled me to take a personal decision about the controversy involving oats in the gluten free diet.

The extensive list of “Gluten-Free Companies/Distributors” (pages 267-310) directed me to resources that I never dreamed existed.

The chapter “Nutrition and the Gluten Free Diet” (pages 73-140) was especially useful to me. My gluten free diet is complicated enough! I needed a clear statement of my other dietary needs. Now I have one!

  So what is my place in the scheme of things? The internet blogger or webmaster is responsible for ferreting out the sort of up-to-date information that changes from day-to-day. Gluten-Free Diet was copyrighted in 2006, making it one of the most up-to-date books on the market, yet it does not report that Anheuser-Busch recently introduced a gluten free beer that is marketed nationally and therefore readily accessible and very reasonably twice. It does not report that single-serving packets of gluten free soy sauce are available from The Gluten Free Pantry. (These statements were not true when the book was printed. I do not mean these statements as criticism; the gluten free world changes every day, and (hopefully) the internet keeps us up-to-the-minute.

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