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Please, please, please, release me from a mail list where a Celiac in Idaho
is concerned with finding Gluten free meals in the great untamed wilderness
of TORONTO. For God's sake woman, use some common sense. Even McDonald's will
serve your burger without a roll when requested (it's in the store manual
under "ALLERGIES") and their fries are delicious, filling and nutritious.

To 90% of the people who send mail to this list:

GLUTEN FREE MEANS GLUTEN FREE! No Gluten in any way shape or form, i.e. no
wheat, no oats, no barley, no rye, no spelt, no beer, no grain based liquors!
Individual reactions may vary and you may be able to binge on occasion on
birthday cake and rolls with little or no reaction, but at the cost of your
long term health. Frequent assaults on your intestinal villii MAY BE
CUMULATIVE! If you think a Gluten free diet sucks, just think how happy you
would be to be told at age 55 that due to the cumulative destruction of your
intestinal tract you'll spend the rest of your life being fed intravenously!
READ ALL LABELS COMPLETELY. IF IN DOUBT, DON'T EAT IT.

YOU CAN NO MORE BE SLIGHTLY CELIAC THAN YOU CAN BE SLIGHTLY PREGNANT!
If your physician suspects that you have ANY FORM of the malabsorption
syndrome characterized as "Non Tropical Celiac Sprue" or any of its relations,
 RUN, do not walk, to the nearest TEACHING HOSPITAL  and ask the best
Gastro-enterologist on staff to have an up close and personal interview with
your lower GI tract, AND HARVEST AS MANY SAMPLES AS HE WILL REQUIRE TO GIVE
YOU A DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO YOUR CONDITION!

Learn to like rice and potatoes, you're going to be eating a lot of them.
Learn to like oriental restaurants, they've been keeping people healthy for a
thousand years on rice as a staple with a varied, pleasing to the eye and
generally fat free cornucopia of dishes. Don't be afraid to ask for special
service when on the road, I travel A LOT, and the staff are helpful and
courteous 99% of the time. In that 1% when they're rude of abusive, LEAVE!
Learn to like broiled and boiled foods, you won't even miss that double
batter dipped chicken fried steak and may even enjoy being able to taste real
food again.

Good Health to All