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Twitter for Celiacs

1 Comment 01 June 2012

Twitter and other social media have the power to enrich and simplify your gluten free lifestyle. This is true for both experienced twitter-users and for those who are not really sure of the difference between a ‘tweet’ and a ‘twinkie’. (Don’t worry about that. I was a newbie three months ago.)

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Defining Gluten Free

No Comments 24 May 2012

Domino’s Pizza is now marketing a pizza crust labeled “gluten free” but not recommended for celiacs or anyone else who follows a strict interpretation of the gluten free diet! Good grief! What happened? Three distinct groups are involved in this ‘hassle’.

♦ Here’s what the Domino’s website has to say:

◊ Domino’s always uses the term “gluten free crust” rather than “gluten free pizza”. Some peoples reporting on this situation apparently do not understand the difference between those terms.

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Make Sense out of this Website

No Comments 01 May 2012

The search box in the upper right corner of your screen is my new secret weapon for finding and rereading any of the 1500 that appear on the site. (FYI: that is an exact number. I achieved that goal yesterday.) Today I learned the power of that inconspicuous looking box. Enter a word — any word — and your computer will generate a special page containing the first paragraph of each of my articles that includes the key word in the title or text. Click on the excerpt to read the entire article.

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A Note About our Newsletter

No Comments 18 February 2012

My thanks to the 2300+ people who subscribe to our weekly newsletter. The newsletter was plagued by some nasty technical problems for the past three weeks, but was published successfully last Thursday. That newsletter was cluttered and hard to read because I was trying to address all the articles that have been posted since this fiasco began. Things will be better next Thursday and better yet in the very near future.

An article posted on the internet has two audience and the writer must satisfy both of them:

The computers from the search engines scan the articles several times each day. If they are dissatisfied and confused (yes, computers get dissatisfied and confused) they bury the offending article at the bottom of a stack of hundreds or thousands of articles.

When that happens, the human readers will probably never find them and they may see titles that are confusing or irrelevant. The function of our newsletter is to help you zero in on the information you need. Google, the biggest of search engines, indexes 53 million articles under the title ‘gluten free’. Our newsletter is a major tool finding the information you need. The task is not easy, but it is doable.

I encourage you to sign up for our newsletter using the widget in the write sidebar. There is no cost and you are welcome to unsubscribe if your computer inbox become impossibly overcrowded.

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using this website

2 Comments 30 January 2012

WHAT ABOUT ME?

I was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1999. I had recently retired, primarily because my then-undiagnosed celiac disease was making my life miserable and ineffective. Fortunately, I was diagnosed four months after I retired. A few months after that, I was thinking seriously about trying to get my old job back.

At that time, I knew just enough about the internet to send an e-mail. I was living in the middle of nowhere and had never heard of the terms ‘gluten free’ or ‘celiac disease’. My son encouraged me to learn more about the internet because I desperately needed basic information to feed myself and to understand what was happening to my body. I started this website in 2002 in order to keep my retired-brain functioning, to obtain the information that primarily for my own use, and hopefully to make a few bucks to supplement my retirement income. The rest — as they say — history!