Anonymous wrote:I follow a low fodmap diet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP), which means I limit wheat. For simplicity, I usually just say I’m gluten free, rather than try to explain fodmaps. There’s a lot of evidence for the low fodmap diet. Check out the list of references in the Wikipedia article.

We have to follow this diet for my DD. It’s hard when everyone else is eating pizza, cookies, cupcakes, cheese etc etc. I do think the Monsanto on our “wheat” has also affected others who do not have such sensitivities. It’s awful when she gives in and the lower bowel problems begin. “Just one piece if bread won’t hurt you ....” Ended up in the hospital. But yes according to OP ( who is an a***) it’s all for fun.

Anonymous wrote:Lol I get what OP is saying though. Some of us have that friend in our group who makes a big deal out of not being able to eat X and loves to try to get the attention of it. But then will say "oh one piece of bread is ok" or "well a couple cookies won't hurt me". I think it's the over all annoyance of that person that just makes that thing so much more annoying. I've seen it with other gluten things too.

+1 we've all seen it. Sorry OP

While no doubt there are some fakers, I think one of the other things that happens is that people are advised to start GF diets when they are diagnosed with auto-immune disorders because there is mounting evidence it may help (Celiac is an AID, after all). But in general the success of getting adults to change their diets for health reasons is low. (Ask my dad, a cardiologist, about his success rate getting his patients to switch to low-cholesterol diets after having a heart attack.) As an example, my SIL was recently diagnosed with MS and told that it might help her to go GF. She tries, but doesn't always take it seriously because it's really f'in' hard!!

I have an AID, and I do take my GF diet seriously. It has helped a lot with keeping my disease under control. What would help even more is more clinical studies, of which there are very few: https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/75/12/1046/4675264

Lol I get what OP is saying though. Some of us have that friend in our group who makes a big deal out of not being able to eat X and loves to try to get the attention of it. But then will say "oh one piece of bread is ok" or "well a couple cookies won't hurt me". I think it's the over all annoyance of that person that just makes that thing so much more annoying. I've seen it with other gluten things too.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, curious about why are you so triggered?

No one in my family has food allergies but we are used to other people having food allergies/restrictions/preferences and we are cool with it.

DH and I are pretty good cooks and we can handle most cuisines and food restrictions of any of our guests.

Because I have a severe wheat allergy. That is why I am triggered. I dream about eating bread and can't stand it when people fake that they can't eat it and then a few minutes later shove it down their throats. And no, I am not less inflamed or anything like that since I was diagnosed. Not even one tiny bit, my choking and coughing from the smallest hidden amount is instant. I have never asked a single person to accommodate my allergy. I never will. It is my burden, and my task to eat what I can and not to broadcast it to the world.

Wow your explanation is ....... even crazier than I imagined.

I agree. She is so angry, so unhappy, so crazy - because other people don't have allergies as severe as hers?

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Anonymous wrote:It's true.

Tons of people who think they're allergic to gluten eat a lot of asian stuff because a lot of it is rice based. Oops, soy sauce that is used in a ton of cooking contains gluten, yet those same people eat it and are fine because there's no placebo effect since they're ignorant about soy containing gluten.

Hello, soy sauce poster. I recognize you from "I hate people who eat GF foods -- there I said it" threads of the past. Are you and OP one and the same? Or do you just suffer from the same rare mental illness?

And I am accused of having nothing better to do? I am OP. I am not the above pp. I have never before today posted a single thing about gf eating.

That doesn't make you any less crazy. NP.

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Anonymous wrote:It's true.

Tons of people who think they're allergic to gluten eat a lot of asian stuff because a lot of it is rice based. Oops, soy sauce that is used in a ton of cooking contains gluten, yet those same people eat it and are fine because there's no placebo effect since they're ignorant about soy containing gluten.

Hello, soy sauce poster. I recognize you from "I hate people who eat GF foods -- there I said it" threads of the past. Are you and OP one and the same? Or do you just suffer from the same rare mental illness?

And I am accused of having nothing better to do? I am OP. I am not the above pp. I have never before today posted a single thing about gf eating.

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Anonymous wrote:Oooh, so edgy and brave of you OP. Here is your
Yeah, I said it! Come at me!" medal of the day. You should feel very proud and daring

She posts the very same thing every few weeks. She's a nut job.

I do not.

Anonymous wrote:Whatever OP, why would I care what your stupid opinion is? All I know is that when I quit eating gluten, I felt much better. After 6 months or so I introduced small amounts and all is still fine.

Good thing about that is that since small amounts do not bother me, I don't have to go on about it if I am in a situation where eating gluten is necessary in order to be a polite guest.

So someone with celiac disease is impolite? My niece mainly brings her own food and prepares it separate from everyone else's.

Anonymous wrote:It's true.

Tons of people who think they're allergic to gluten eat a lot of asian stuff because a lot of it is rice based. Oops, soy sauce that is used in a ton of cooking contains gluten, yet those same people eat it and are fine because there's no placebo effect since they're ignorant about soy containing gluten.

Hello, soy sauce poster. I recognize you from "I hate people who eat GF foods -- there I said it" threads of the past. Are you and OP one and the same? Or do you just suffer from the same rare mental illness?

Most people who post troll threads are lonely outcasts with no life. That's my theory of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, curious about why are you so triggered?

No one in my family has food allergies but we are used to other people having food allergies/restrictions/preferences and we are cool with it.

DH and I are pretty good cooks and we can handle most cuisines and food restrictions of any of our guests.

Because I have a severe wheat allergy. That is why I am triggered. I dream about eating bread and can't stand it when people fake that they can't eat it and then a few minutes later shove it down their throats. And no, I am not less inflamed or anything like that since I was diagnosed. Not even one tiny bit, my choking and coughing from the smallest hidden amount is instant. I have never asked a single person to accomodate my allergy. I never will. It is my burden, and my task to eat what I can and not to broadcast it to the world.

Wow your explanation is ....... even crazier than I imagined.

Anonymous wrote:OP, curious about why are you so triggered?

No one in my family has food allergies but we are used to other people having food allergies/restrictions/preferences and we are cool with it.

DH and I are pretty good cooks and we can handle most cuisines and food restrictions of any of our guests.

I like to cook, too, and eat all different kinds of food. i love vegetarian and vegan and gluten free dishes even though i'm none of those things. It's fun. No skin off my nose to make or eat food like that. I like it all. I cannot fathom being so triggered by someone else's food choices. Incomprehensible, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Oooh, so edgy and brave of you OP. Here is your
Yeah, I said it! Come at me!" medal of the day. You should feel very proud and daring

I did what I felt like doing. That is good enough reason for me. The reason so many pps are defensive, including you, is that they know I am right and that they are just making a fuss for attention. Instead of blaming gluten, maybe start demadning that bread is made as it ought to be made again. Simple test for you, bake bread. Eat bread you baked. See how you feel.

LOL I recognize you. You're the "You're just mad cuz you wish you were me" poster. LOL what a loon. No, we are not "defensive because you are right" -- we're mad because you are wrong. LOL what a nut.

Anonymous wrote:Oooh, so edgy and brave of you OP. Here is your
Yeah, I said it! Come at me!" medal of the day. You should feel very proud and daring

She posts the very same thing every few weeks. She's a nut job.