Gluten-Free Market Set to Explode

Gormet Retailer ^ | JULY 10, 2006

[pabianice]

Mr. Carlin: "I think I'm overcoming my fear of wheat."

Bob Hartley: "That's good.

Mr. Carlin: "But I'm still skitish around oats."

Bob Hartley: "Yes, ah, oats can be a killer."

From The Bob Newhart Show

[ConorMacNessa]

His celiac abated when he reached puberty.

[Coldwater Creek]

You really do not know what you are talking about.

My husband was only a few days away from death when he was diagnosed with Celiac. He was put on a gluten free diet and within a couple of weeks was a new person.

If he get any gluten or wheat even touching his food he is deathly ill for three days.

The fact is that this is the most highly misdiagnosed disease

[Coldwater Creek]

Yes, because whiskey is made with grain!

[JRandomFreeper]

glutten-free regimen

I'm done with regimes of all sorts. Anyone that wants to pry the sticky, cold gluten from between my fingers should probably bring a lunch, they may be a while. Fried onions and seared flank-steak on whole wheat sounds really good.

/johnny

[Coldwater Creek]

People that have Celiac cannot tolerate gluten or grains of any kind. So no, you cannot have whiskey!

[Coldwater Creek]

That is exactly the way it happened to my husband. He had taken so much aspirin for the pain from Celiac that he had to have 5 units of blood. Never has had a problem for the 2 1/2 years that he has been on the diet.

[JRandomFreeper]

because whiskey is made with grain!

Yes. Whiskey is made with grain. At the far remove.....

Do you know what gluten is? Can you diagram it up on the board? It's a complex, semi-solid structure according to McGee.

There is NO gluten is well made whiskey. 'Tis a far remove from those proteins. They get broken down by the enzymes in the malt into short-chains that the yeasties can eat to produce CO2 and ethanol.

Science is a grand thing, if one has a clue.

/johnny

[OSHA]

It's no fad. My wife has gluten intolerance. It destroys the ability of the intestines to absorb. She was very anemic before going wheat free and had to have blood transfusions.

[Coldwater Creek]

I am really glad for your son, but I have always been told that Celiac was here to stay for the rest of my husband's life.

His Dr. is the one that operated on Ronald Reagan for colon cancer.

[Coldwater Creek]

I know that there a alot of fad illnesses out there, but this is one not to take lightly.

Thank goodness that we stumbled into an ER where the Dr. knew what he was doing. We were a thousand miles from home.

[ConorMacNessa]

My son had both celiac and a milk allergy. They both abated in his teenage years. We had heard that a small percentage of cases abated spontaneously. This goes back 20 years. Perhaps if he were a baby now the differential diagnosis might be different.

[Coldwater Creek]

Did you read what I actually said. A person with Celiac cannot tolerate GRAIN or gluten. I might not be a science giant, but I have to read every label on every thing that I buy for my husband to put in his mouth. No whiskey,

[Coldwater Creek]

Lucky that you had a Dr. that caught the Celiac early. Might have been a different story.

[Hawthorn]

mylife wrote:

> I cant imagine a world without bread. <


Us southerners get along pretty good on a diet of corn bread and corn whiskey -- neither of which contains gluten!

Come on down and give 'em a try, especially if you can add some collards and fried catfish on side!

[ConorMacNessa]

He was diagnosed with the milk allergy as soon as he was weaned. The celiac diagnosis didn't come until we tried solid food. When he was four years old, we used to treat him to ersatz pizza made from rice flour and soy cheese. He liked it, poor kid. :)

[JRandomFreeper]

Grain or gluten? Careful how you answer. The disease is clearly defined in the literature.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I've got a pot of barely cooled pinto beans cooked with a can of Ro-tel and a smoked ham-hock, and other stuff. Am I invited to the feed?

/johnny

[Coldwater Creek]

Do you live with Celiac Spru? Are you a gastro specialist? If so, maybe our Dr. is just pulling the wool over our eyes.

[operation clinton cleanup]

According to the latest figures, around three million Americans, a little less than 1 percent of the population, currently suffer from gluten intolerance, although estimates suggest that 97 percent of celiac sufferers remain undiagnosed and go untreated.

Gosh, I'm sure I must be part of that 97%, I would hate to have an undiagnosed intolerance of some sort and not know it.