Clare told me recently about her gluten, dairy and corn free weekend with friends where they noshed themselves silly - with no bad effects at all. I asked her to show us how it is done - here's her report. Remember, she is not totally grain free so mentions rice - and I don't have …
Importance of Magnesium
When I trained, one of the most important differences in my nutritional learning to other types was the levels of magnesium and calcium in the body. In most cases, nutritionists will give you a ratio of 2:1 calcium to magnesium BUT the truth is that most people have far too little magnesium and far too …
I Am Here!
Don't worry, I haven't been abducted or anything. Sorry posts have been few and far between recently. I have been working hard with patients, designing a prescription protocol for TGFs as well as trying to get the recipe book finished. LOTS to do. Bear with me. There are a few things to post about so …
CoeliacsMatter Agony Aunt
Michelle at FoodsMatter.com has launched a great new site at CoeliacsMatter.com to cater for all those gluten free-ers who need access to specific information, research, links, foods and products. There is even a well-frequented forum for you to read through and post on. You will find plenty of articles and comments from me on there already and, I am …
#Thyroid or #Adrenal Problems – Check #Gluten!
For our final Coeliac Week post, I would like to share a case study and email I received recently that demonstrates you can get well again once you start getting gluten out of your system. I love getting little snippets like these and, thankfully, get quite a few, so thank you. First, some background. This …
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#Coeliacs – Overweight Not Underweight
It is a myth that most coeliacs are underweight. The truth is that you could be underweight, normal weight or overweight and still have coeliac disease. Historically, doctors would only think about testing you for coeliac disease if you presented with the classic symptoms of failure to thrive as a child, or being underweight with …
#Coeliac and #Gluten Sensitivity Testing
This is a post I wrote during Coeliac Week this year - useful rundown of testing issues. The biggest problem is that many coeliacs are going undiagnosed. Many people will be posting about the symptoms to look for (although weight loss, diarrhoea, failure to thrive are certainly not the only ones to look out for …
What Is This # Thing?!
Just in case you are wondering why I have started putting this # symbol in the blog post titles, I am publishing the posts via Twitter now too. Putting the hash symbol enables more people to find tweets on that particular subject which is great. The more people find the posts, the more we get …
Grain & Corn Free #Supplements
Just to let you know the lovely people at Foodsmatter.com have published an article from me on the subject of trulyglutenfree supplements. Have a read here. Hope you find it useful.
Gluten Cross Contamination
I have been thinking a lot about cross contamination recently as many patients report having problems with so-called gluten free grains like amaranth, quinoa etc. See Anthony's comments here, for example. I thought, then that you might be interested in this blog post from Dr Osborne at the Gluten Free Society: Packaged-food-high-risk-for-cross-contamination-of-gluten. Here is the …