Quinoa is a very nutritious food, and an excellent addition to most people's diet, especially if you are on a restricted diet such as gluten-free.

The quinoa article on this website has just been expanded and now has much more information about this great food.

Note that a small minority of people can not tolerate quinoa, as you will see from the comments.

Most people do very well on quinoa.

Read more about Quinoa.

I've been taking EpiCor for the last six weeks, to see if it would help with my allergies.

What I've noticed is that I have more energy when I take EpiCore.

EpiCor is not an energy booster, so I've been wondering why this might be the case. Also, there is no research to support that it helps with food allergies at all.

What Epicor is good for is airborne allergies, such as dust, pollen, mold, pet dander etc.

A comment from Heather, about citric acid and yeast (see Even Yeast free bread may still have yeast) put me on to learning that some people have a citric acid intolerance.

That lead me to a bit of research, which lead me to Vicy Clarke's Citric Acid Intolerance page.

The problem with having a citric acid intolerance is that citric acid is so hard to avoid, at least if you eat prepared foods.

Sounds familiar from avoiding gluten.

I've not been feeling too great lately. Usually, I can trace it back to one of my allergies.

Could it be gluten or wheat? I doubt it because I'm pretty sure I've not been exposed to any gluten-containing foods. I'd have to say, my gluten exposure risk has been pretty low lately. I've kept well away from wheat.

Yesterday, I went to Nates, an Ottawa-area deli-restaurant.

This was not a good choice for anyone with an allergy to gluten. The choice of restaurant was not mine to make however. I was stuck with the choice of deciding to go, and risk triggering my gluten allergy, or just not going.

For various reasons, which I will not explain here, I decided to go.

This is not a place that is sympathetic to allergies.

I have to admit that I've not been feeling great the past few weeks, and I've been blaming my allergies. More specifically, I've been blaming my symptoms on my wheat allergy.

The symptoms that were bothering me most were fatigue, insomnia, and waking up feeling very unrested. Also $brain_fog$, but that could have been due to lack of sleep, or it could have been allergy symptoms.

As usual, I suspected wheat. But something about my symptoms did not seem to match my usual reaction to this allergen.

I recently noticed that a surprizing number of people have found this site by googling "mini wheats and intolerance". Actually, almost any number is surprzing, given that this website ranks at 51 in Google for that particular term. That is a lot of websites to explore, none of which provide an answer.

So I guess I owe it to those of you who are searching to write an article specific to this subject. No one should have to sift through that many search results to get an answer to this question!

Here are a few facts about Mini Wheats:

• They contain wheat

Does sharing a meal with people who do not understand your gluten-free/wheat-free diet make you nervous?

Since a bread crumb or two could ruin my week, I can't relax when I am at a table that includes bread made from wheat.

I generally deal with this by taking my share of food first and putting it on my plate, and keeping my gluten-free bread well away from regular bread, or anything else made of wheat.

This Christmas though, I took it one step further.

Everyone had the same gluten-free bread as I did.

Opinion

Is it OK to cut down trees for the sake of allergies?

A couple in Palo Alto, California, is having a dispute with the city about cutting trees next to their property. The couple wishes to remove the trees because (or so they say) they have allergies. The city is refusing the request.

The fact is that pollen carries an awfully long way on the wind. As sympathetic as I am towards people with allergies (I have allergies myself), I don't see the point in cutting down trees on properties were the owners have allergies.

I am nearing the end of my house-sitting stint at my friends house - the house with the moldy basement. Most basements in this city are moldy it seems, which is why I am loath to move (I live in a house with a dry, relatively mold-free basement).

I've been managing my allergies by completely avoiding the basement (except for rare occasions, when I have done my best to take a deep breath before opening the door, running down the narrow stairs, doing what I have to do, running up again ... hopefully all on one breath as I slam the door behind me).