Yaks as testing sources....

[Guest guest]

Maybe our yaks should start charging you for their services...

When in doubt, ask a yak.....

Melonie

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> I use you guys for a gluten detection kit. If I am thinking about

eating something, I try to talk one of you into eating it and then

observe if you post about stomach ache, explosive diarrhea, etc.

It's not as fast as the store bought kit, but it is a whole lot

cheaper.

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> --E

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> new study on oats for children

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> > For those who are considering giving oats to their celiac kids,

I pass

> > along the following abstract:

> >

> >>From the Coeliac UK newsletter:

> >

> > " Oats in a gluten-free diet

> >

> > There have been a lot of studies looking at the toxicity of oats

in

> > the diet of people with coeliac disease. This interesting study

looked

> > at the effect of oats in the diet of children on a gluten-free

diet by

> > looking at antibodies to oats avenins (the protein in oats

similar to

> > gliadin in wheat). Previous studies have shown that untreated

children

> > with coeliac disease have circulating antibodies to avenins in

their

> > blood. The researchers looked at 116 children who were randomly

put

> > into two groups: one group had a normal gluten-free diet and the

other

> > had a gluten-free diet plus oats. Anti-avenin antibodies were

measured

> > at 0, 3, 6 and 12 months. No difference was found between the

blood

> > results of the two groups. This suggests that oats do not

produce an

> > immune reaction in children with coeliac disease when they eat an

> > otherwise gluten-free diet. The researchers suggest that for

oats to

> > produce an immune reaction they need to be eaten with a source

of gluten.

> >

> > Ref: Hollen E et al. Coeliac children on a gluten-free diet with

or

> > without oats display equal anti-avenin antibody titres.

Scandinavian

> > journal of gastroenterology 2006;41(1):42-7 "

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