From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm glad you've figured out something that'll help you (i.e., avoiding > gluten).
It's going to be a major job for me though... with my current diet, so many of the foods I eat contain gluten. I will have to reshape my diet very significantly. Fortunately, I have already found a source for gluten free bread. Gluten free tortillas will probably be harder to come by though, and may end up being a home cooked item. I was hoping that reduced consumtion would be adequate, but I don't think that is going to cut it. At first, I was feeling great with the lowered quantities of gluten contining foods, but I think my body has already adapted to the lower dosage. Now two slices of wheat bread seems enough to have a significant effect on me. It looks like it's going to have to be an all-or-none thing. <snip> > Weird food reactions can do very strange things. There was a time I > could get intoxicated on milk. I've mostly been avoiding it, but I had > the same reaction with non-premium ice creams, and more than once, had > to send something back because, contrary to how I'd ordered it, they'd > dumped a scoop of vanilla ice cream on my dessert, and on one such > occasion, I and my lunch companion had to use the word "allergy" about 5 > times before the waiter comprehended just what the problem was, that it > wasn't just that I had wanted to get the cake more cheaply. :P Apparantly, I should have a similar problem with dairy, though I have never had oppertunity to notice it because I quit eating dairy products years ago. Casien (a protein found in milk) is very similar to gluten in structure and also acts like morphine in individuals with the gluten problem. > It *can* make a difference in your life if you figure out that a food is > causing or aggravating a problem, and can get it out of your diet. I certainly hope so. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
