looking for an awesome gf flourless chocolate torte

[Guest guest]

to make tomorrow.m

-----Original Message-----

Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:46:17 pm

From: " seamaiden399 " <seamaiden399@...>

Subject: [ ] Re: Help for diagnosing toddler

Also, some people have only one copy of the Celiac gene and others have two.

Those with two (like me)- with a copy from both parents may have higher risk of

developing the active condition.

I don't know that I think it is such a big deal for a young child who has not

started school to be on a gluten-free diet. Personally, I have a gluten-free

household and do not plan to start baking with gluten even when our child is

born and eating solid food. This should not be a hardship for her, as the food

we have in our house is pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. I'm not

wild about a lot of the junky food marketed at children (both gluten and

gluten-free) and don't plan on making it a staple of her diet. I have been

diagnosed with Celiac since three and have not found it to be such a terrible

thing- it has not separated me from my peers in any way. What one eats does not

need to define who we are, unless we choose for it to.

That being said- I also am a strong advocate of pursuing a Celiac diagnosis fo