Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
I know from personal experience just what a restricted diet can do to your nutrient levels! When I did a mineral hair test a few years ago, my colleague assessing it for me nearly fainted and I think her direct quote was: "How are you still standing?!". Er, it must have been mind over matter! …
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Not according to this latest survey as reported in the latest WDDTY: Third of 'gluten-free' options in restaurants contain gluten Whilst not in the same league as the recent tragic anaphylaxis incidents, which truly break my heart and madden me in equal measure, this is still really not good news for coeliacs and gluten-sensitives. And …
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Useful reminder here for those of us needing to be at least traditional gluten (gliadin) free. Would you have thought of flour on a cooked chicken skin to make it crispier? Or cheese packaged in-store possibly being contaminated by surfaces used to wrap other deli stuff? Makes you think, doesn't it? And this kind of …
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I love a good salad but they can be a bit boring. Here's a lovely refreshing one for you - for when the sun does eventually come out! I've popped it on the Gluten and Dairy Free Pinterest recipe board for you, along with a couple of others this week including Harissa and Nut Stew …
New Cyrex 10-90 food tests now on the shop for you as promised in a new section: Gluten, Cyrex and Autoimmune Tests http://ow.ly/r7g23006hyU
Just in time for Chrimbles, I saw this list of gluten and grain free vodkas including a couple from potatoes or grape. Gluten Free Vodkas I have tried potato vodka and couldn't tolerate it - Barrier Planners note that potato is out anyway so I should have known! - but I haven't tried a grape …
Just to let you know I have today sent your free TrulyGlutenFree safe supplements master list update for you so check your in-boxes. Highlights include a new herbal range, a D3 5000iu, a comparison of some safe, some not papaya extracts, green tea granules (something ready-to-use, I know!) and some new magnesium sprays. Stuff that …
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The lovely people at Souvenir Press recently sent me a review copy of Rita Greer's new book Simply Gluten Free. Rita has written freefrom stuff for years and it was nice to see another new book from her. Simply Gluten Free is just that: a simple introduction to gluten free eating. The book is based on a …
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I am sure many (all?) of us have, at some point, been accused of making it all up, bringing reactions on ourselves, being a bit obsessive about food, eating unhealthily by cutting important stuff out of our diet yada yada yada... Some people are cutting gluten out for weight loss reasons and just because they …
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I am always on the lookout for evidence that other grains can be hazardous to gluten sensitives, and here we have a report showing that: Crypt hyperplasia and villous atrophy were severer in the corn oil-fed group than those of control group, whereas mucosal damage in the perilla oil and low fat diet groups was …
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