*Rolleyes*
Yeah, yeah...the gluten-free advocates will be here to bash me in 3...2...1...
I won’t bash you. I’m a celiac who understood what you meant. For folks like me, not an allergy. There are those on the diet for other reasons, among them children with autism. But I won’t “bash” you.
A gluten free diet isn't a choice ~ it's what you do to deal with the fact that your body treats wheat gluten as if it were a poison or disease.
My diet has adjusted itself to be more like my Sa'ami ancestors ~ meat, fish, lingonberries. Anything beyond that is simply a luxury. And my cholesterol? LOW.
You’d think wheat was “the staph of life”
Sheesh.
I’m curious. When you were growing up, were there anywhere near the number of picky eaters oops I mean “food allergies” among your acquaintences?
I never knew a single one. Not one! NO ONE in school had a “food allergy”.
Until maybe ten or fifteen years ago all this “food sensitivity” crap was unheard of.
Strange, don’t you think? How did society progress to this sorry point?
“When doctors recommended her teenage daughter go on a gluten-free diet, the family food bill went higher than Miller could afford.”
I notice in the excerpt above that “doctors” is plural. Wondering how many doctors met with her, and all of them recommending gluten-free diet!?
If she didn’t get multiple opinions, she gets no sympathy here. I’ve been there with misdiagnosis on this before myself. In my case it turned out to be stress, not wheat.
Isn’t it possible to be gluten free without being “gluten free”?
A fair moral to this is "Donations" and not taxes. America are are generous
enough without the Gov doing it's distributing of our money.
*Rolleyes*
Yeah, yeah...the gluten-free advocates will be here to bash me in 3...2...1...
I agree! We can handle rice and potatoes just fine. Most can deal with grits.
gluten bookmark
Those who are GF cannot have
wheat
barley
rye
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The American Dietetic Association Guidelines were written through a cooperative effort of dietitian experts in celiac disease in Canada and the United States. The following grains & starches are allowed:
* Rice
* Corn
* Soy
* Potato
* Tapioca
* Beans
* Garfava
* Sorghum
* Quinoa
* Millet
* Buckwheat
* Arrowroot
* Amaranth
* Tef
* Montina®
* Nut Flours
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Let’s see, food banks usually have rice, corn, potatoes, and beans. Not as if there’s nothing there for the GF, eh?
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http://www.gluten.net/diet.php
Well there really isn’t much point in giving people food that will make them sick. If somebody walked up to the food bank that was lactose intolerant you’d figure they’d take the cheese out of what they gave them right? Same thing, different ailment.