Audubon Magazine has an excellent article “Pandora’s Water Bottle” about the danger’s of plastics. I have read a lot about this subject, but my mouth dropped when I read this excerpt. Even though I know that BPA was first used as a synthetic estrogen, this was still shocking to me. “The researchers had conducted hundreds […]

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  • Upstatemomof3 - Plastic cups!! You know I have read about the dangers of plastic a little and so I do not buy water bottles and things like that anymore but I never thought about our plastic cups. Thanks for the tip!!ReplyCancel

I showed some gluten free friends how to make these gluten free chinese dumplings with a vegetarian filling and dipping sauce. They are a wonderful way to use up leftover meat and vegetables. Lacking most of the ingredients for the vegetarian filling, I ground up some leftover chinese chicken and vegetables and threw in some […]

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Celiac Disease is an autoimmune disease in which the presence of gluten leads to intestinal damage which impairs absorption of fats, vitamins and minerals. It can also cause a severe rash known as dermititis herpiformis which causes an itchy painful rash. The impaired absorption of vitamins and minerals means that celiac can present in a […]

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  • Susan M - Thanks for this great post! My 3yo has many of the symptoms you talked about and has been diagnoses with autism. I had never even heard of Celiacs when I took him off of gluten and casein containing foods in May. In July he had some scopes done and the biopsy came back inconclusive for Celiac sprue, but the genetics and syptoms were there. Unfortunately the GI would not diagnose him with Celiac disease which I am fighting for because the schools are demanding that for when he goes to school. Sooo…after 8 months on the diet he is now "regular" and his autistic traits are fading day by day! I do believe that for him at least Celiac was the underlying problem and what was causing his nuerological deficits!ReplyCancel

  • Jackie - My son was diagnosed with several food allergies including dairy, egg whites, wheat and soy. I feel like if they had tested him for Celiac before I made the dietary changes he would have tested positive. However, he has never been tested, but I believe he has it. He has made very great improvements in his behavior in the past year. He is still a picky eater and I am having trouble getting him to take his vitamins now. I want to get him on fish oil, but don't know how to get him to take it without force. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for all of your informative posts.ReplyCancel
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