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Serious Food for Thought

Posted in Candida, Celiac, Food allergies, Gut Issues, gluten-free, tagged on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today I got my newsletter update from celiac.com. Included was this incredible article about a study whose results were recently published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Long story short: your gut health can be negatively affected by a gluten-free diet. BEHOLD, UNIVERSE! This is major news in my world! It validates what I have [...]

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Food Allergy Article in NYT

Posted in Candida, Food allergies, lupus on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday the NY Times published this fascinating and provocative piece about food allergies. I am glad to learn that the medical establishment is reviewing its protocols for food allergy testing, and especially, retesting.
I myself have had conflicting experiences with doctors–some who swear by the food allergy blood tests and others by the skin tests, which [...]

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The Jamming Queen

Posted in Candida, Cooking, Food allergies, Glorious Food, Recipes, food, tagged , , , on July 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life…
Ooooooooohhhhhh…
See that girl, watch that scene, dig it, the dancing queen…
I sing as I jam. I am the Jamming Queen. Watch out for me at your next karaoke party.
Yes, I have been jamming. To Abba and to raspberries. Thus far, I have made raspberry [...]

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Cookbook Torture

Posted in Candida, Cooking, Food allergies, Gluten-free vegan, Recipes, tagged on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Sitting here this holiday reading Alice Medrich’s amazing new book, Pure Desserts. Man, oh, man. Sometimes it is painful to have these food problems. I love to read cookbooks, but it’s come to the point where maybe I shouldn’t. Mainstream cookbooks, that is.
My fantasy is that someone like Alice Medrich will get celiac disease and [...]

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Going to See the Chinese Witch Doctor

Posted in Candida, Food allergies, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I figure since it’s Chinese New Year I should write a little about my experience with the Chinese witch doctor, a.k.a. my acupuncturist/herbalist. Before you get your panties in a twist over my calling her a witch doctor, you should know that at this point, I think she’s probably a deity, and for whatever reasons, [...]

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How Dare My Body

Posted in Candida, Cooking, Food allergies, Recipes, Restaurants, Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’m not sure how my body can have the nerve to ask me to give up dairy. Get out the violins, but how dare it? Have I not given up ten years of my life to food allergy insanity? Have I not given up [...]

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