Yahoooo!
My tendonitis behaving VERY well (thanks to this wonderful gizmo my sweetie bought me), so I’ve been working through my accumulated emails and wordpress responses! I apologize to anyone who has written and thinks I dropped off the planet – I just dropped off the ‘Net for awhile!
I wanted to draw attention to a great article in Scientific American on Celiac Disease. You can read it online here.
Though Celiac and Fructmal are very different, the article paints a hopeful picture for all of us with food intolerances. The article explains the advancements and new ways of thinking currently moving science forward in the way they look at food intolerances and their relationship to many ailments and symptoms that would seem unrelated. The article may be about celiac, but the shift in scientific & medical thinking was a really positive and hopeful sign to me as a Fructmal.
The the foody side, I recently discovered two new foods. Jordan’s brand Morning Crisp cereal and Glutino brand Pretzels.
There are a couple of varieties of Jordan’s Morning Crisp. My local grocery store had the “nut” kind. Sweet oat clusters and big chunks of nuts! Almond, hazelnuts, pecans… no wheat! They recently replaced it on the shelf though with the FRUIT and nut type… I’m going to see about THAT!! HA! I loved the cereal and had no reaction to it.
The Glutino pretzels were also delicious. Taste just like regular, ordinary pretzels! Turns out I can’t continue eating them – but not for Fructmal reasons…totally unrelated. I am particularly sensitive to carboxymethyl cellulose. I get heart palpatations – and the Glutino pretzels contain it. But if you aren’t sensitive to it (carboxymethyl cellulose is in all “freeze-pop” type frozen treats, for example) then GREAT! Taste, texture, small, all match the “real” pretzel experience!
Well, gotta go. Still can’t over do it~
3 responses so far ↓
Joyce // September 27, 2009 at 5:12 am |
How did you discover the connection between carboxymethyl cellulose and your heart palpitations? I’m sensitive to medications and some immediately cause my heart to dance (one actually caused chest pain) but something like THAT… how did you figure it out?
avthompson // November 19, 2009 at 7:49 pm |
Hi Joyce!
Actually it was kinda weird. It was a VERY hot, hot summer and I was grocery shopping and spotted the freezepops in the freezer section. I hadn’t had a freezepop since I was a kid, and the idea of having some in the freezer at home was very appealing (no air conditioning! LOL).
I had… oh goodness, probably 4 the first day and the next day… Hot sweaty bloom over my body quickly following by a cold bloom and my heart racing! As my sister always had allergies, our households reaction to a weirdness in the body was always, “OK, what have you been eating?”…… so my brain just did that instinctively! Freezepops were the only thing that I’d been eating that were out of the norm for me. So I waited a week and ate 3 or 4.. Yup, same thing the next day.
I read tyhe label and, yah, there were LOTS of 50cent words on the label, but stuff I knew I’d eaten in other things before… y’know: polysorbate 80, carageenan, …blah, blah, blah, but I’d never heard of carboxymethylcellulose. I was working in a bookstore at the time and looked it up in one of the food additive books in the reference section… not listed! So I tried the medical reference! It was listed as a heart medication!
Turns out it’s used in all frozen treats that you squeeze out of their wrapper (rather than being on a stick), like freezepops. It apparently gives them that “sandy/mealy” texture… whereas treats on a stick like popsicles has a “fiberous” frozen structure. If you think about biting into a popsicle, you can see the icy “fibres” radiating from the stick outwards. It kinda makes me nervous that this stuff is in a treat that children eat!
Ariana
FMintoronto // October 13, 2009 at 2:25 pm |
I am looking for an ALLERGIST IN TORONTO Canada who is aware of the
IgG ELISA FOOD ALLERGY TEST as well as the connection between FRUCTOSE MALABSORPTION/LACTOSE INTOLERANCE/CELIAC/UNDIAGNOSED GLUTEN INTOLERANCE
I don’t want a doctor who has no clue, and tell me it’s in my head, or there is no scientific proof…..
I want to ask my family doctor to refer me.
If you know of a doctor please tell me!