helenwiells's Comments (17)

“You can only say this if you've had the disease! The body literally is slowly starving because it's unable to absorb nutrients.
I was so sick for 40 years, then I was diagnosed (by biopsy) with CDI've been gluten-free for the past 25 years and life is great again.”

“It's your body...do what you want to do with it.”

“Finding gluten free foods is easy. It requires an initial investment in time to find a different way to eat, but once you do, it's not necessary to analyze everything. It's just a change, the way some people make when they get healthier, lose weight, etc. There are many gluten-free prepared foods, and many of the baked goods made with wheat can be made with other grains at home, with no loss in flavor.

I have a friend who lived most of her life with undiagnosed celiac. She nearly died as a sickly child, spent her life in pain, in and out of hospitals, dealing with surprise medical problems like anemia, etc. Now that she has been diagnosed and has gone gluten free, she leads a normal, healthy life. She eats well and has a varied and interesting diet. Once she adjusted her diet, it takes no more notice than regular cooking. There are even bakeries and restaurants that cater to gluten restricted diets.

If you don't have any health problems from gluten, it probably is difficult to imagine doing this. But if you have the problems, and all you have to do to be healthy again is to change your diet to different (and sometimes tastier and healthier) grains, the cure is easy (and doesn't come with side effects either).”

“Nothing is impossible. Except of course your own limitations.”

“As the fiancé of a woman with celiac disease, the disease is far worse than the cure. I have for the most part been surprised at how easy it is to stay gluten free when cooking at home. Going out to eat is much more tricky, but it's getting better as restaurants are becoming aware of the problem. If everyone in the United States was screened for celiac (as is the case in Brazil and Spain and other countries), many more people would be diagnosed and the demand for gluten free products in stores and gluten free options at restaurants would be much, much higher.”

“Actually, it's not too tough to eat gluten-free IMHO. I make lots of soups, stews, various baked items (using GF flours), read labels - but I'm not too much of a nut about it. I love rice and could eat it three meals a day, I don't eat traditional breakfast items for breakfast (but then I never did) and have a stock of GF items like rice crackers, mixes, etc.”

“It's not really that big of a burden to me. Finding out that I was allergic to gluten took a load off of my mind. As I said in an earlier post, I would get goose bumps and become very chilled after eating. I'd sneeze until I got a headache, and assumed people were turning up the air conditioning for years even though no one else in the restaurant or at home (worse at restaurants) was having the same reaction. I just couldn't imagine it was a food allergy. Now I know, I just say no to the bread and the noodles, and very rarely do I have sneezing fits after a meal.”

“I did it 6 years ago. My health and diet improved. I'm more satisfied now. Why berate people who have gone through the reality of this?”

“I was born In Oakland, California. Were you by any chance the doctor/nurse that helped deliver me? :)”

“There is a book by David Cay Johns(t?)on with a chapter about home security, about how the vast majority(somewhere over 90%, IIRC) of alarms are false or bogus and how the alarms chew up public safety dollars for no real benefit. Oakland's got the right idea.”

“Besides, they don't call it a medical PRACTICE for no reason...”

“Remember the poems in our Mother Goose book.”

“I would love to see some of your writings, is there a web site or book where I can view them?”

“LOL, thanks for the morning giggle!”

“The ONLY reason gas is so cheap is that its REAL cost is not calculated... add the military expense for policing the Oil supply for a start..mostly paid for by stealing "the peoples' money..(social security and medicare should not be classed as "income" to be looted for military incursions..and yet it IS ..hence massive deficits for the past 40 yrs) ... there is a HUGE disconnect between the natural systems that sustain us and the desire of Americans to burn as much gas as possible any way we can...Cheap goods get wasted and are taken for granted... its been psssibl;e to buy a 99mpg car in europe for 10 YEARS now .. why ?? expensive gas for decades = innovation and efficiency... .”

“Name one thing this clown has said that was repeating, one?”

“That's what they pay in Europe and their economies are OK, thank you very much.”

“Great you can be miserable in comfort, which describes the life of many Americans.

You can also have happines with discomfort, its all in your state of mind.

In fact the persuit of extravagance is the surest route to sorrow.”

“Ever hear that Ben Franklin started the first fire department? If you bought his insurance, he'd have them put your fire out. But if you didn't, too bad. Damn, I hate both insurance & pharm companies. They hold life and death for people. Human beings. What a sick system!”