Gluten-Free in Pasadena

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Gluten-Free Protein Bars

I really like Tanka Bars.

Ingredients are buffalo and cranberries.

They are gluten, soy, dairy, and corn free.  They are glycemically balanced and taste like beef jerky.

Good snack!

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Gluten-Free Products may not be Gluten-Free

I recently drank some rice milk which claimed it was gluten-free. Over the course of 2 weeks I started getting fibromyalgia-like pains. I knew it must be something I recently started eating.

After investigating with the help of the Celiac Sprue Association, I found out that the milk contained a small amount of barley. Because it was a small amount the manufacturer didn’t need to include barley in the ingredients. The information was in the FAQ section.

My symptoms dissapeared when I stopped drinking the milk.

Buyer beware!

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What is Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance?

Small intestine damaged by celiac disease (Wikipedia)

Celiac disease is on the rise. What is it, and what are the symptoms?

Celiac disease is a disabling digestive disorder caused by a reaction to gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye and some oats. It is also an ingredient in foods processed with these grains.

When you have celiac disease, and you eat food containing gluten, the gluten triggers an autoimmune response, similar to an allergic reaction. The reaction damages the lining of your small intestine, where most of your digestion takes place. This results in reduced nutritional asorption, vitamin deficiencies, and even malnutrition.

The symptoms vary among individuals, but generally include diarrhea, malodorous, fouls-smelling flatulence, abdominal pain and bloating, and increased amounts of fat in the stool (steatorrhea).

Because of nutritional definicies, many sufferers might have weight loss, osteoporosis (bone density loss), muscle weakness, and bruise easily, among others.

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Osteoporosis and Bone Loss Linked to Gluten Intolerance

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The New England Journal of Medicine has reported on recent research linking osteoporosis and bone loss to inflammation. It is becoming more apparent that osteoporosis is triggered by an auto-immune attack on the proteins which maintain bone density.

Gluten intolerance may be a double culprit here.

On one hand, gluten intolerance/celiac disease causes malabsorption of nutrients in general, including calcium and vitamin D, critical for bone density.

On the other, gluten intolerance may be triggering osteoporosis by causing a body-wide inflammation, which provokes an auto-immune response which attacks (among other things) the osteoprotegerin proteins responsible for bone density.

Most doctors don’t check for gluten intolerance when examining osteoporosis patients . . . although maybe they should!

Although most medical doctors do not check for gluten intolerance in patients with Osteoporosis and Osteopenia, the idea is not new.

See the New England Journal of Medicine study here.

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Woman Lives Gluten-Free, but is Well-Fed!

This is an article by Jennie Bragg, an Editorial Producer in CNN’s Money Unit

My very first word was cookie – raisin cookie to be exact. Family legend goes, it came out something like, “raymee cook cook.” The details are trivial. The moral of this story is that shortly after I left the womb, I discovered my first true love: carbs.

As I grew older, my meal of choice became quite obvious: the basket of bread. Who needs to order at all when the best part of a meal comes at the very beginning, for free?

And so it was, for 24 years, that I lived the life of a glutinous gluten monster – until that fateful day. After about two years of terrible stomach issues and running from doctor to doctor, I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. That’s the no-carbs-for-the-rest-of-your-life disease (or at least not the good carbs).

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Nutrition: Low-fat Christmas Leftovers

By Cycling Plus

It’s Christmas time, and once again we face the battle of excesses – especially Christmas dinner. But don’t despair: despite many of the ‘naughty’ full-fat, high-sugar add-ons, the biggest meal of the year actually contains many superfoods that will make highly nutritious, low-fat meals well into January.

Take turkey for example, the main ingredient. “Turkey is one of the lowest fat mainstream meats around,” says Emma Turner from www.britishturkey.co.uk. “There’s just 155kcal, 1.7g fat and 22.6g protein in 100g of skinless grilled turkey breast meat. It’s also a good source of zinc, which is needed for a healthy immune system.”

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone a wonderful holiday!

Processed Meat Raises Risk of Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancer

A new study published in the journal Circulation reveals that eating processed meat products significantly raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Previous research has linked processed meats to cancer as well.

The new paper involved a meta-analysis of 20 different studies covering more than one million people from 10 different countries. The study found that eating just 2 ounces of processed meat each day resulted in the following:

• A 42 percent increase in the risk of heart disease.

• A 19 percent increase in the risk of diabetes.

Interestingly, the analysis simultaneously found that eating non-processed meats was not linked to these increases in disease risk. The study authors concluded that it was the processed salt and chemical additives in the processed meat that caused increase risk of disease.

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