Getting Enough Fiber in Your Gluten-Free Diet—Some Helpful Tips

Getting Enough Fiber in Your Gluten-Free Diet—Some Helpful Tips

As healthy as it is cutting out the gluten allergen from your diet, you may find yourself experiencing the effects of insufficient fiber. Rice flours and the starches commonly used in gluten-free diets are lower in fiber than many gluten-containing grains. It is important to realize and meet the challenge of getting enough fiber in […]

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How is Sjögren’s Syndrome Diagnosed?

How is Sjögren’s Syndrome Diagnosed?

There are several ways to test for Sjögren’s which I have added below, even though I have an Article on this very topic posted at the Gluten Free Help website. I personally had the eye test done (brings back memories) and then the blood test done. I have an account with a lab and can […]

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Going Blind! by Sandi Star, CCN

Going Blind! by Sandi Star, CCN

  I remember using a ton of eye drops and never getting any relief. I was finding pieces of Sclera (the white, dense, fibrous outer coating of the eyeball) inside the lids and I was getting scarring. I was working full time and going to school at night; looking at a computer screen all day and books […]

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Treating Autism with Bentonite Clay

Treating Autism with Bentonite Clay

  As a children’s author, researcher, and humanitarian, I have been growing increasingly alarmed at the growing rate of autism diagnosis. Whereas in the 1980s, a study shows that 4 in every 10,000 children exhibited signs of autism, a study conducted recently by Cambridge University’s Autism Research Center showed that approximately 1 in 60 children […]

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Probiotics: Dr. Fasano and Celiac Disease

Probiotics: Dr. Fasano and Celiac Disease

  As an author, researcher, and gluten-free advocate, I work to raise awareness for celiac disease and gluten intolerance because with increased awareness comes more research, more diagnoses, and even better treatments. I’d like to give you an example of how the work of just one researcher, Dr. Fasano of the Center for Celiac Research […]

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Accurate Home Test for Celiac Disease

Accurate Home Test for Celiac Disease

Looking to get tested for celiac disease? Conventional testing methods, such as intestinal biopsies and blood testing, can often be inaccurate. However, now you can bypass a doctors visit and test yourself for the disease with one-hundred-percent accurate DNA testing. How does it work? A test kit is mailed to one’s home which doesn’t require […]

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Home Genetic Testing for Celiac Disease

Home Genetic Testing for Celiac Disease

Celiac disease affects 1 in every 100 Americans, causing a variety of painful physical and mental symptoms, yet once it’s diagnosed, it can be easily treated with a change in diet, without even the administration of drugs. Unfortunately, it’s as difficult to diagnose as it is easy to treat. Why is that? Doctors don’t know […]

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Up Close and Personal with Author, Carol Fenster, “1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes”

Up Close and Personal with Author, Carol Fenster, “1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes”

1. First of all are you Celiac? No, I have non-celiac gluten intolerance. I don’t have the celiac genes; nonetheless, I get sick when I eat gluten. 2. How did you become interested in his area – gluten and celiac? I was told to avoid wheat in 1988, after decades of sinus infections. I realized […]

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Helping Your Child Connect with Celiac Support Groups

Helping Your Child Connect with Celiac Support Groups

     If your child has recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, it is likely your family is still adapting to the gluten-free lifestyle. It may seem overwhelming at first to a celiac patient to begin the gluten-free road to recovery, as there are many challenges to face in adjusting to a gluten-free diet. Parents often […]

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Gluten and Its Effects on Many- VIDEO EXPLAINING THIS!

Gluten and Its Effects on Many- VIDEO EXPLAINING THIS!

Watch this very helpful video: http://www.tuesdayminute.net/gluten09-bioticsresearch.html   I really welcome your feedback and let me know if you learned from this video.   Tina Turbin

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Keeping Your Celiac Child Safe at School

Keeping Your Celiac Child Safe at School

     First of all, you’ll need allies, and who better than your child’s teachers? This means all of his teachers, including his physical education instructor or his home room teacher, with whom some children only meet with periodically. I highly recommend meeting with each teacher individually. Writing a note or e-mail is usually insufficient to […]

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An Extraordinary iPhone App

An Extraordinary iPhone App

  Many of us are either gluten-sensitive or celiac, meaning that even the smallest amount of gluten can make us ill. It’s estimated that 3 million Americans suffer from celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder caused by gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, resulting in a variety of physical and mental […]

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Terrific Site for Anyone Gluten-Free- Gling

Terrific Site for Anyone Gluten-Free- Gling

I really am impressed with the site Gling www.gling.com for the terrific gf recipes, food tips and articles he offers and the multitude of contributing celiac and gluten free chefs, moms and the like. My hat is off to another wonderful effort to help out GF community. Mike Lee the founder has done a great job […]

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Bagels Buddy and Me by Melanie Krumrey

Bagels Buddy and Me by Melanie Krumrey

    Mother of 3 and new children’s author Melanie Krumrey did a very fine job in illustrating and writing the book, Bagels, Buddy and Me. This book is her story of her son’s headaches and stomachaches leading to tests which eventually led to high antibody tests, then her and then her daughter and then […]

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Food and Company Review: Omega Smart

Food and Company Review: Omega Smart

(I am not paid or given any incentive to write one way or the other. What you are about to read is from me to you, my honest opinion.) Omega Smart Nutrition Bars are made with figs and flax with health and skin in mind.  They are really nutrient dense and most definitely made with […]

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Tips for Protecting Your Celiac Child from Hidden Sources of Gluten

Tips for Protecting Your Celiac Child from Hidden Sources of Gluten

     First of all, as you’re getting to know the guidelines of a gluten-free diet, read as many reference books and articles as possible and carry with you gluten-free resources at all times, particularly when you’re eating out, cooking, and grocery shopping. Knowledge is power when it comes to going gluten-free. A support group and […]

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Gluten Enzymes

Gluten Enzymes

The body has its own digestive enzyme for gluten known as dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPPIV).  When this enzyme is supplied, it greatly assists in the hydrolysis of propy peptidase assimilating proline-rich proteins.  “What’s this?” you ask? Read on: Now this may all sound like a foreign language to you but let me clarify what it all […]

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Gluten Intolerant, Gluten Sensitive & Celiac- Explained by Ron Hoggan, Ed. D.

Gluten Intolerant, Gluten Sensitive & Celiac- Explained by Ron Hoggan, Ed. D.

The phrase “gluten intolerant” is a rather nebulous term which is why I try to avoid using it. I prefer to use ‘gluten sensitivity’. The sub-groups of gluten sensitivity are: gluten sensitive enteropathy (otherwise known as celiac disease); non-celiac gluten sensitivity; neuropathic gluten sensitivity, etc. Gluten sensitivity is the term recommended by the world renowned […]

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U.S. Way Behind in Gluten-Free Awareness

U.S. Way Behind in Gluten-Free Awareness

     Celiac disease in America affects three million citizens, but only one out of every hundred of its sufferers has been diagnosed. The average American has never heard of the disease, and it doesn’t occur to the average American doctor to test for it.       There are several organizations in the United States which are […]

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Celiac Disease and Miss Indiana’s Mission

Celiac Disease and Miss Indiana’s Mission

Jenna Drew holds the title Miss Indiana (PA) International 2010 and her platform is Celiac Disease Awareness. She works hard to make “Gluten Free” a common household term. My friend, Jenna gathers many gluten-free bloggers in her efforts to help – read this interview: Tina Turbin www.glutenfreehelp.info  

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