Archive for the ‘Gluten Intolerance’ Category
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
As I check my address book, I see that I have around 500 entries, all friends, co-workers, family members, and colleagues.
Through statistical analysis of blood samples, it has been determined that approximately 1 in every 133 people in the United States have celiac disease.
So statistically, I could safely bet that ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
I just got back from a five night stay at the Disneyland Resort. It was perhaps the best vacation I've ever been on, for one big fat main reason: Almost every restaurant, from the high-end venues to the carts on the sidewalks, have gluten-free options. Oh yeah, and the kids ...
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
The chicken was coated in egg batter using Namaste pizza dough mix and fried hot. the pizza dough mix works great for this purpose because it has a nice consistency and is seasoned well. The TastyBite Alu Chole Bombay Potatoes came out of a box, but tasted amazing.
However, the special ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Forbes has this article that sounds like more research is on the way for treating gluten intolerance:
According to researchers in the Netherlands, an enzyme originally developed for commercial food processing -- AN-PEP -- may be able to break down gluten in the stomach before it reaches the small intestine. That's ...
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Monday, June 26th, 2006
This exciting piece of news crossed my radar this morning: A paper from researchers at Stanford University outlines a possible path for treatment, and maybe even a cure, for celiac disease:
Rational Design of Combination Enzyme Therapy for Celiac Sprue
Here, we demonstrate that a two-enzyme cocktail comprised of a glutamine-specific cysteine ...
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