gluten free

fatiain said:
There's an advert on the TV at the moment for gluten-free shampoo.
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Yeah I clocked that one. Can that affect coeliacs?

My friends kids are allergic to tonnes of things. The youngest has been rushed to hospital a few times just because he was near someone who had been using flour.
 
adidan said:
Yeah I clocked that one. Can that affect coeliacs?

My friends kids are allergic to tonnes of things. The youngest has been rushed to hospital a few times just because he was near someone who had been using flour.
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I guess it can, if you drink it in the shower!

My dad's uncle/great uncle/cousin/great grand cousin or something was a master baker (stop sniggering at the back) up until he was in his 50's. He developed a massive allergy to wheat overnight and had to jack it in
 
I was in Hospital for a year when I was born due to having Celiac disease , and I was quite illl again with it in my late teens , and at 54years old there are some foods stuffs that if I eat them I feel really unwell , the only fruit that I can eat without feeling like my insides are burning are bananas thats it, I cant even have any fruit juice pies or pasties or anything like that, and if I have anything coated in batter I feel really ill after it , so much so my hands start to shake and it's like I'm gonna pass out
 
The main thing that annoys me is the cost. Up to £3 for a loaf. And a loaf going out of date that day might be reduced form £3 to £2.50, whereas standard bread there's stacks of loafs for 25p. Standard economics I get it. But couple that with the fact that because it's gluten free it goes stale and dry quicker, it can be annoying and expensive if you're on a tight budget.
 
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hornetstinger said:
How come food doesn't say "free from human body parts, toxic waste, cockroaches and rat excrement"
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Because then they'd have to employ teams of people to check and maintain audit trails, every time they produced something... whereas it's far cheaper to just send £20 vouchers and a letter of apology to the occasional customer, who actually finds something like this and bothers to report it!

UnworthyBean said:
A while back ASDA were selling 'free from' things that didn't have any of the listed things in them anyway, just with an inflated price.
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See - Not surprised in the slightest, and even less surprised to find out it's ASDA doing it!
 
I've eaten gluten free bread (in a sandwich) and gluten free crumpets. Both were horrible! Dry and tasteless like cardboard.

If I was gluten intolerant I'd have to eat them otherwise I'd say don't bother.
 
I have Coeliac disease, was diagnosed 18 months ago. Blood test and endoscopy confirmed it. Can’t have any gluten ever again if I want to live a normal life.
 
banja said:
Not eat foods with gluten in them.
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I mean how did they know about gluten being an issue or caused it to be an issue in the first place? It's only become a big thing over the past last few years recently, all of a sudden people have problems with eating gluten
 
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malachi said:
I mean how did they know about gluten being an issue or caused it to be an issue in the first place? It's only become a big thing over the past last few years recently, all of a sudden people have problems with eating gluten
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Well for me I had food allergies from birth but mostly ignored them. It wasn't until I tried a gluten free diet that I saw improvements that I didn't even know could happen, if that makes sense. Mostly just removing products made with wheat flour, as I don't have Coeliac disease. I assume people are trying it partly because it has become a 'big thing' and discovered that it improves their well being.
 
I supply food - huge marketing trend at the moment based on pseudo-science and the 'healthy eating fad'... actual coeliacs are less than 0.2% of the population, people who think they are coeliacs, considerably higher, and people who just believe it is healthier (it isn't), a larger proportion still.

How many people in the UK have coeliac disease?
There are approximately 125,000 diagnosed with coeliac disease.
 
malachi said:
I mean how did they know about gluten being an issue or caused it to be an issue in the first place? It's only become a big thing over the past last few years recently, all of a sudden people have problems with eating gluten
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I've known people for over 20 years with coeliac disease.
 
What about the poor glutens? All I see is gluten free this and that, yet nobody seems to be sticking up for the glutens themselves! Soon we'll be living in a post gluten society and then there will be trouble.
 
martin363 said:
I supply food - huge marketing trend at the moment based on pseudo-science and the 'healthy eating fad'... actual coeliacs are less than 0.2% of the population, people who think they are coeliacs, considerably higher, and people who just believe it is healthier (it isn't), a larger proportion still.

How many people in the UK have coeliac disease?
There are approximately 125,000 diagnosed with coeliac disease.
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Yes, but it's not like actual gluten-free products (as in versions of products that traditonally have gluten in them) are in any way a large share of those products over all.

And regardless of what people think, anyone can have intolerances/minor allergies to pretty much anything, it doesn't have to be either full-blown coeliac or impervious to gluten.

One of my colleagues has a strong egg allergy, a slice of cake will make her start throwing up. My brother has a minor egg allergy which gives him a rash/hives if he has enough (he can have a slice of cake fine, but a 3 egg omlette will cause him some itchy time).
 
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