My Celiac Blog

Regular readers of this space will already know that we often create new websites to benefit people with celiac disease. So the fact that we have created another one is not likely to come as a big surprise What is different in this case is that this new site is all about videos, thus the name Celiac Videos. We are using two normally unrelated programming APIs as well as Ajax and JavaScript techniques to present you pages with videos on specific celiac related topics, like kids with celiac disease, gluten free baking, and the science on the subject of celiac disease.

We hope you will find Celiac Videos useful and informative. Please don't hesitate to tell your friends, tweet, or post a link on Facebook about it.

For years our designs of gluten free food shopping sites have been frustrated by limitations on searching across multiple categories for gluten free food. A recent visit from my far away programmer son led to a very promising breakthrough. We'd like your help in testing and improving the results, if you have a minute. The search form below will open a new window with results from our sister site Gluten Free Search. Results will be displayed according to search terms you provide. The phrase "gluten free" is already embedded in this search, you need only to specify the type, brand or name of the item you wish to locate.

So please think of a brand of gluten free foods, a specific gluten free food item, a gluten free food ingredient, or a type of gluten free food. Type the term in the form below and see if the search results are useful for you, if you can spare a few seconds. Please feel free to leave a comment here if you wish to let us know what you think of this search utility.

Thanks for helping us to make the site as useful as possible, all suggestions are welcome.

As I do from time to time, I've created another website designed to hopefully make life easier for people with celiac disease. This one is a gluten free food shopping site, but unlike all of the others I've made I rolled this one out by hand, line of code after line of code. It is called the gluten free celiac store.
I did use a free CSS template to get started, but it has been heavily modified to suit my purpose. The items shown ultimately are all sold by Amazon, but the link layout and the search engine are the results of my own labor. The intent of the design is to make it faster and easier for people to find gluten free food items. There are also a few pages that list books about celiac disease and gluten free cookbooks. Many of the pages expand the navigation area, and there is a live search tag cloud too.

I'd be delighted to get any feedback you might have to offer about what you do and do not like on this new site. It's at http://store.glutenfreeceliac.com/

Thanks,
Steve

These days, with the economy so badly off, we are looking for less expensive ways to shop just like everyone else, affected by celiac disease or not. In fact we spend more time working on shopping websites than anything else at all. Our latest trick is a new way to offer items listed for sale at eBay.
Here is an example, a search for gluten free vitamins:

Isotonix Multivitamin Market America 300g Multi Vitamin

US $47.00

20d 7h

B-12 Patch - One Month Supply (4 Patches) Vita Sciences

US $24.89

29d 5h 51m

3 bottles x 200 Softgels, NOW Omega 3 Fish Oil, EPA DHA

US $29.99

9d 11h 10m

COQ-10 Q-10 COQ10 CO Q10 COENZYME 200MG - 300 CAPSULES.

US $39.00

29d 3h 49m

With this new method we can search for anything sold by eBay. We've added a few new pages here for books related to celiac disease and GF cooking. Since used books are often available on eBay, these book pages might help to stretch your shopping budget, we hope so.

I build websites. That's what I do. Today I built another website for people on a gluten free diet. It is called Gluten Free Celiac. This site uses the SMF discussion forum package with a front end portal add-on. I also set up some bots to fetch gluten free recipes and food items for sale and post them as messages. There are already 99 recipes and about 50 food items listed, and this part will continue automatically.

What the site needs now is human users. Human users make all the difference in the world. You seem to be a human, so I'd like to invite you to visit the site: http://glutenfreeceliac.com/

Of course it is and always will be free!

Our latest website designed to help people with celiac disease is now online, and it supports users of cell phones and other mobile devices. Gluten-FreeStore.com features GF food items from the two largest retailers in the gluten free food market, glutenfree.com and Amazon.com.

The site uses WordPress blogging software, and features listings of a number of gluten free food categories you may select. Prices are shown on the individual item pages, which are in effect each a blog post, and in addition there are pages that list top selling gluten-free items at Amazon.

If you access the site using a mobile device it detects your device type and formats the display layout to better fit your screen.

Please consider visiting http://gluten-freestore.com/ for your GF shopping needs, you can compare the deals from the two top vendors in the business in order to get the best pricing and shipping available.

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Woo Hoo! Food scientists working together at Washington State University and Oregon State University are planning to develop a new variant of wheat that would not contain the gliadin proteins which cause trouble for people with celiac disease. This, if it comes to pass, would be earth shatteringly good news for those of us with grouchy tummies!

An article on the website Capital Press, which caters to the agriculture industry, reports the good news.

I'd like to thank these food scientists for caring about this issue, and wanting to help overcome this annoying disease.

Imagine sinking your teeth deep into a nice French Baguette like the one shown here, then pulling it ever so slowly away, teeth still clenched firmly, and watching as it stretches and then tears in a way that gluten-free bread just does not do at all.

Imagine eating bread that tastes like bread. Oh yes, I am so there. I might gain 10 pounds in the first week such a wheat-based gluten-free bread becomes available, but I would cherish each and every one of those pounds. Sock it to me, science!

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On the late TV series Futurama, an episode once contained a short skit about Crelm toothpaste, which had the miracle ingredient Fraudulin.

This post is not about Crelm toothpaste.

There is a company named Enzymedica that sells, among other things, a product called Glutenease. In their literature describing this product they make some rather startling statements, let us examine one in particular, the context is a discussion of the usefulness or lack thereof of the gluten free diet as a means of treating celiac disease, which is also called gluten intolerance.

Glutenease by Enzymedica Marketing Statement
"Though effective in the short term, removing foods does not provide an ultimate solution. Once those foods are reintroduced to the diet, the symptoms return. "

Now imagine a person who is drunk, or high, playing Russian Roulette, and then suddenly realizing it is not a very smart thing to do:

Russian Roullette Claim Using Similar Logic

"Though effective in the short term, putting the gun down does not provide an ultimate solution. Once the gun is reinserted in the mouth, the person could die".

We do not recommend that people with celiac disease, which is sometimes called gluten intolerance, should play Russian Roulette with their health. You can see more discussion of this product here.

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There is a new website for people with celiac disease, the intended use is to provide information and news about celiac disease. Users can register free, and each user is encouraged to maintain their own blog as well as posting messages to a fairly basic forum. Users can also create polls which anyone can vote on, registered or not.

Perhaps the best feature of this new website is the Celiac-related news. It is categorized, mixed, blended and served in your choice of several ways -as just headlines in the left and right sidebars, or in more detail if you use the navigation links.

There is also a big long section of GF recipes, and links to a few GF food items.

The site designer (c'est moi) hopes to build a community of people with celiac disease, and people on a GF diet for other reasons, like autism, are certainly welcome too. There is still time for you to be among the very first people to create an account at All About Celiac. Really, visit http://allaboutceliac.org/ today! It's all free, of course.

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At our house, we go through gluten-free and vegan burgers as if they were candy, yum! And the best ones we have found are thankfully available in great quantity at our local Trader Joe's. These burgers have a texture and mouth feel that is very much like meat, they are more chewy than most gluten-free vegan burgers. I've seen them at Whole Foods stores too. After two of these with a little ketchup and I get what I call Happy Tummy, always a desirable state for people with celiac disease. Look for them at your local health food store, I think you'll like them too.

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