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Miscellaneous Notes:
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"A Passover Guide to Cosmetics and Medications" is updated yearly.
This 33-page booklet is available from Kollel - Los Angeles, 223 South
Formosa Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036; 213-933-7193.  A donation is
requested.

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Better Baking Taste:  Terry Kotlensky, a new member from Hartland,
Michigan who was diagnosed less than a year ago, offers the following
baking tip as a way to achieve a better taste and more moisture in
recipes like Bette Hagman's pancakes and brownies:

For each cup of Bette Hagman's GF flour mixture, remove 1 tablespoon
of the mixture and replace it with 1 tablespoon of Garbanzo Bean
Flour.  She tried 1/4 cup but it was too much.  (She purchased this
flour from an Indian food store.)

"The batter tastes horrible but the results are fantastic," according
to Terry and her family.  The kids say, "This tastes real".  The
family wants to share this tip and its exciting results with everyone
else and hopes we will all try it.

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Triazolam is GF:  Per a telephone conversation with Pharmacia/Upjohn,
Triazolam, the generic form of Halcion, is made from gluten free
ingredients.  (Although they receive about one phone call a day on the
subject, they provide no information in writing because while they add
no gluten to their product, they cannot guarantee anything with their
suppliers in processing or packaging.)  Triazolam is manufactured by
Greenstone, Ltd., Portage, MI, a generic manufacturing facility of
Pharmacia/Upjohn.

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Humor:  A doctor, speaking to his newly-diagnosed celiac patient:
"You may eat anything you like.  Here's a list of what you are going
to like..."<1>

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Researchers Rate Calcium Pills:<2> Recent studies have found most
women aren't consuming the daily recommendation of 1,000-2,000
milligrams of calcium.  Tufts University researchers counted 36
different types of calcium supplements in one store alone.  But which
one is best?

First, check the label to see what type of calcium the supplement
contains.  Calcium citrate or calcium carbonate supplements are your
best choices, according to Dr. Simeon Margolis, professor of medicine
and biological chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.  The body
absorbs calcium citrate best, but calcium carbonate is generally the
most reasonably priced and contains the most elemental calcium (the
part the body actually uses) per tablet.  Three other common calcium
compounds (calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, and calcium phosphate)
are not as well absorbed and were not recommended.