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spending my paycheck on gluten free food
Love Me, Love My Dog | September 27th 2008 by Christine
I thought that the similarities between my dog and I were a few things like being stubborn, too smart for our own good, and even something like our pouty, puppy eyed look. Within the last couple of weeks, DH and I have figured out that one of the bi read more
Tuna fish cakes (Gluten and Dairy Free Fish Recipe)
The Ultimate Fishing Blog | August 21st 2008 by Tom Banks
My Mum suffers from coeliac disease, which is an auto immune disease caused by gluten that effects the stomach. The means that sufferers cannot eat gluten (wheat, rye, oats and barley) because the stomach reacts badly to it and begins to stop digesti read more
No money to run coeliac disease tests
Free From (Gluten) | August 7th 2008 by Lucy
Because of budget constraints, a hospital in Ireland has had to cut back expenditure. An internal memo (according to the Irish Times) indicates that the hospital executive have decided to cancel all non-urgent elective work until the end of Septemb read more
Celiac Disease ... Did you know?
Life Expressions | August 5th 2008 by Pinaymama
A lifelong autoimmune intestinal disorder, found in individuals who are genetically susceptible.Coeliac disease, also spelled celiac disease, is an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine that occurs in genetically predisposed people of all ages f read more
Diagnosis Research
incurable hippie's musings and rants | August 5th 2008
At a hospital appointment last week, I received a diagnosis of sensorimotor axonal neuropathy. Possible causes they are looking at are medication-related, coeliac disease, and vasculitis. We know that I don't have diabetes or alcoholism, which are th read more
Your Success Stories
GI News | July 31st 2008
‘For anyone starting their journey into low GI eating, embrace it, the health benefits are enormous.’ – RobinI discovered a low GI way of life in March 2006 when my weight was 125 kg (275 lbs). By August of that year my weight had dropped to 94 read more
New flavours to savour
Free From (Gluten) | June 12th 2008 by Lucy
Gluten free food fairs, should you get the chance to go to one, are well worth the trip. Even after 11 years, we still find new products. We went across country, to Teesside, to a food fair we’d not been to before, because coeliac daughter has read more
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Blurb from the Burbs | June 10th 2008
Bathrobe Bliss The long weekend just gone (here in Australia, at least) was to celebrate Queen Liz the Second's birthday. Lord knows the actual date the old chick was born, but we got this Monday off. Yeah, I want the land of Oz to be a republic and read more
Recipe: Gluten free bread
Orangeman Burns - Sriram Sridharan's Blog | June 8th 2008 by Sriram Sridharan
A gluten-free diet is recommended amongst other things in the treatment of coeliac disease and wheat allergy. It is a diet completely free of ingredients derived from gluten-containing cereals: wheat (including kamut and spelt), barley, rye, oats and read more
Pathology MCQ 54
PG Preparation | May 16th 2008 by Dr.Vishaal Bhat
Which of the following is correctly matched? malabsorption - hepatobiliary disease malabsorption - pancreatic insufficiency maldigestion - coeliac disease malabsorption - Crohn’s diseaseAnswer read more
The perfect recipe for gluten free waffles?
Free From (Gluten) | April 19th 2008 by Lucy
Sorry: this isn’t it, but I know one of you out there has it … Once again, I spent 20 minutes scouring the kitchen to find the tiny scrap of paper that came with our waffle-maker 10 years ago, because coeliac daughter decided she fancied read more
Hello, this is the BBC
Free From (Gluten) | April 15th 2008 by Lucy
If you were quick, and just happened to be listening to BBC Three Counties at 11:55 last Friday, you would have heard me on the radio, talking about coeliac disease and prescriptions. The thing that is most exciting for me about this (apart from the read more
Passover: a gluten free bonus for coeliacs
Free From (Gluten) | April 4th 2008 by Lucy
A quickie today: I’ve just come across a really interesting post about Passover and coeliac disease here, at Forward. It explains something I’ve never quite understood - why the really big branches of supermarkets here have a wider range read more
Allergy Free Passport used for real
Free From (Gluten) | April 1st 2008 by Lucy
You may remember that I blogged about receiving a copy of the Let’s Eat Out series some time ago … Husband and coeliac daughter are just back from a skiing holiday in Austria, and they took the Multi-Lingual Phrasebook* with them. They read more
Gluten Free Beer in Australia
BrewPoll Home Brewing and Craft Beer News | April 1st 2008 by homebrewer
Coeliac disease (pronounced seel-ee-ak) is a medical condition and is a permanent intestinal intolerance to dietary Gluten. Beer contains Gluten, preventing some people from enjoying a cold Beer. Thi5 Vote(s) read more
Saracenic cake - Sacher saracena
cookinginrome | March 17th 2008 by Alessandra
This cake it's a personal version of the famous Austrian Sacher torte. It's special because I used buckwheat flour, a fantastic flour perfect for coeliac diet , because it's gluten-free. Also I subsituted the butter (in the original Sacher ) with veg read more
Gluten Free Easter Egg List
Free From (Gluten) | March 12th 2008 by Lucy
Coeliac UK have recently published the list of Easter confectionary that is gluten free. It’s an interesting list: no Tesco, no Morrisons, no Waitrose, no Marks and Spencer (so if you want to buy from these shops, you’ll have to deal dire read more
Gordon Banks pushes for Food without Fear
Free From (Gluten) | March 11th 2008 by Lucy
Once again, Gordon Banks MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament - this time (no. 871) to support the Food without Fear Campaign that Coeliac UK are running. That this House recognises the importance of the proper handling of allergens in lo read more
Live gluten free - because you’re worth it
Free From (Gluten) | March 10th 2008 by Lucy
Diagnosed as coeliac? Don’t be tempted by people who suggest that ‘a little bit won’t hurt’, urge ‘just this once’, or say ‘go on - I won’t tell anybody’, while offering you a plate of gluten-full read more
7 gene regions identified for coeliac disease
Free From (Gluten) | March 4th 2008 by Lucy
Yesterday researchers announced that they have identified seven gene regions linked to causing coeliac disease. Also the research found that four of these gene regions are responsible for a predisposition to Type 1 diabetes (the type which occurs fro read more
Recipe Challenge: Food Without Fear
Free From (Gluten) | February 22nd 2008 by Lucy
Coeliac UK has launched a competition for chefs throughout the UK to design a unique and innovative gluten free recipe, which will be judged by award winning chef, Giorgio Locatelli. This is because: Coeliac UK is looking for exciting and delicious g read more
Gluten Free Bullying - is it happening to you?
Free From (Gluten) | February 15th 2008 by Lucy
Is your child’s packed lunch safe? There was a rather scary story on the message board from a mother whose daughter is coeliac. One of the other children at school has taken to ‘accidentally’ dropping not-gluten-free food into her read more
Microbe Magic
Free From (Gluten) | February 1st 2008 by Lucy
Do you need to explain the digestive system to your coeliac child? A new site for primary school age children (4-11) has been launched by the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC), which is a scientific research centre, based at University College, C read more
The Lax Approach
Unprotected Text | January 30th 2008 by Unprotected Text
I’ve had diarrhoea all afternoon, spread right across my bed sheets. Just to clear up any misconceptions, that be, I’ve been reading about diarrhoea. It’s been an exhaustive few hours and I didn’t stop for lunch, but can you blame me? I found read more
Coeliac UK is still recruiting …
Free From (Gluten) | January 25th 2008 by Lucy
… a different post this time. That’s three in not very long. I wonder if they have a retention issue, or if the charity is expanding hugely? This one is for a Deputy Head of Diet and Health, and is worth about £35,000 per year. It soun read more
The stripper, her nurse’s uniform and coeliac disease
Free From (Gluten) | January 23rd 2008 by Lucy
An extraordinary plotline for a UK hospital soap today, announced in The Sun: Hayley Tamaddon is … stripper Alison who goes to hospital as she is stuck in her skin-tight PVC nurse’s uniform. An ITV1 spokeswoman said: “Alison’s stomach has read more
Another option for gluten free breakfast
Free From (Gluten) | January 23rd 2008 by Lucy
We’re still on the hunt for a more interesting gluten free breakfast for my coeliac daughter … I’ve found another new product (new to me, anyway): Kelkin gluten free porridge, which I found in Tesco. This is an Irish product -which read more
Gluten Free Granola
Free From (Gluten) | January 21st 2008 by Lucy
My coeliac daughter is beginning to feel a bit despondent about breakfast. “There’s nothing to eat …”, she’ll complain. There is, of course, but she’s bored with the normal range of gluten free breakfast available read more
Allergy Alert: Morrison’s ham
Free From (Gluten) | January 16th 2008 by Lucy
This is another slightly unlikely risk … Morrison’s own brand breaded ham doesn’t say on the label on the back that it contains wheat flour (though the front of pack label is correct). Of course, if you are a coeliac, you won’ read more
Allergy alert: Tesco’s granola squares contain wheat
Free From (Gluten) | January 11th 2008 by Lucy
I think it very unlikely that a coeliac will even have picked up a packet of granola squares to check the label, as granola is one of those products which almost invariably contains at least one of oats, wheat, barley and rye … but if you did, read more
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