Archive | GLUTEN FREE DIET

02 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Low Calorie Gluten Free Food

Many of us face the challenge of living gluten free and controlling calories. Here are several links that might help meet that challenge:

I’m not sure how RecipeZaar defines “low calorie”, but they have over 6000 recipes indexed as both “gluten free” and “low calorie”.

Read this review of the lower calorie doughnuts from Kinnikinnck. Note that [...]

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26 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Gluten Free in the New Economy

How do we cope with the current situation? What can we say to a person who has just been told that their family must go gluten free? A  challenging question to say the least.
The articles that I would like to share seem to have two themes: we must rely more on fruits, vegetables and other [...]

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22 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Who Needs the Gluten Free Diet?

Three distinct groups of people follow the gluten free diet:

People who have been diagnosed with celiac sprue. This is a hereditary auto-immune disease that causes the body to react to gluten as if it were a poison. There is no cure for celiac disease and the only prescription is a lifelong adherence to the gluten [...]

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16 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Beginning the Gluten Free Diet

This list is designed for persons who have already made a commitment to the gluten free diet. Don’t take this caveat lightly. Keep in mind that:

it is extremely difficult to obtain a clinical diagnosis of celiac disease if the patient is already eating gluten free.
Gluten free food may be as much as two to three [...]

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25 January 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Gluten Free…the Definition

What does the term "gluten free" mean? This question is not as straight-forward as it sounds. The competing definitions are all expressed in parts-per-million (ppm), so I had better start by defining that term: one part-per-million is the equivalent of 1 penny in $10,000 or 1 minute in 2 years. Have a look at this [...]

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