Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
Lovely piece from Michelle at FoodsMatter this weekend giving us a fab round-up of the way that Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity is at last gaining full recognition as an illness. Of course, I would think it was fab as I am credited as being one of the 'way out, wacky' people who started banging the …
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  As you know, I beaver away constantly on TGF stuff, and much of my time is spent on finding safe grain and dairy free supplements for us all. I have now amalgamated the two previous supplement reports into a master list of Truly Gluten Free grain and dairy free supplements with a way for you …
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  I have come, I admit rather slowly, to the realisation that: a) I am never going to have the time to write the TGF recipe books as there is SO much more to do, and anyway... b) there are so many people who can do it better than me, so we may as well learn …
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I thought it might be an idea to have a quick look at how the blog has done and remind ourselves of some of the most important news of 2012. This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2012 which is not bad since I have done very little except put it on the blogosphere for people …
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Whoa, what IS going on at the BMJ? It's like buses: you see nothing on non-coeliac gluten sensitivity and then two articles come along at the same time! This one, reported beautifully by Dr Briffa, rendered him: almost speechless at the balanced and honest nature of this account of gluten sensitivity: it recognises the limitations …
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I nearly fainted the other day when I read this case study in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) of all places: A Patient’s Journey Non-coeliac gluten sensitivity The journal is the most mainstream of medical publications here in the UK and seeing a piece about gluten sensitivity in it is stunning enough. But seeing a …
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I was just reading one of Dr O's latest blog posts about quinoa - more on that next. But before that, I picked up this point he makes about what is and isn't safe on a traditional gluten free diet: Gluten Definition Overhaul is Needed Current testing for gluten relies on a methodology called ELISA. …
C sent me this story today which is about a little boy with eosinophilic oesophagitis who reacts to almost all foods. As sad as the actually story is, just look at the comments underneath. Admittedly, this is a Daily Mail story and the comments on that website are renowned for being pretty awful, but as …
Actually, I think that estimation is too low and it doesn't take account of all those with non coeliac gluten sensitivity. However, this study does show the importance of checking genes and not just relying on blood and biopsy tests. Celiac disease (CD) is a multifactorial disorder with an estimated prevalence in Europe and USA …
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Here's a shocker for you: Because wheat is a hexaploid species (doesn't that sound creepy?), the byproduct of three ancestor plants becoming one, with no less than 6 sets of chromosomes and 6.5 times more genes than found in the human genome, it is capable of producing no less than 23,788 different proteins - a fact as amazing …
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