You don’t have to be Irish, or Italian to have Celiac Disease & You don’t have to be a Jew to eat Kosher food.

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Text Box: MacDonald’s, the “fast food” restaurant, is under fire from many Celiacs for having kept secret it’s use of gluten in many of it’s products, especially it’s French fries. Everyone knows that their hamburger buns for their Big MAC™ sandwiches are made from “wheat,” but this mess is about their “fries,” which had been found to contain “traces of gluten.” After I had learned that I was Celiac in 1999, and being on a real tight budget, I would sometimes go to McDonald’s across from FrankText Box: lin Mills Mall. I asked them to hold the bun on the burger. The manager, a real nice fellow who stood up for his customers, insisted that there was no gluten in the burgers, or the fries when I had asked about the use of “fillers.” I would stop by after shopping at CompUSA. Little did I know that I was still eating gluten. These days, I am more careful. McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant chain, whose first-quarter profit fell 13 percent from a year earlier as reported by The Chicago Tribune on April 13, 2006, was recently taken to task earlier and sued by some Celiacs who claimed to have been duped by McDonald’s. The gluten hit the fan, caused much controversy on the evening news and in print and Text Box: McDonald’s & It’s Gluten—Celiac Problem Text Box: Kosher Food News Text Box: Israel McDonald’s Gives In A blog reported on March, 2, 2006 that “McDonald's has agreed to change their classic logo of golden arches on a red background in order to denote their strictly kosher restaurants in Tel Aviv.” This is great news for all who have to eat at the 100+ McDonald’s here. Only “a dozen are considered strictly kosher because they do not serve dairy and are closed on the Sabbath.” SOURCE: foodfacts.info/blog Text Box: Orthodox Union & Gluten The OU, or Orthodox Union recently announced that ”it has certified as both kosher pareve (containing neither meat nor dairy) and gluten-free Miss Roben’s baking mixes.” They also say that it “is one of the first companies to be certified through OU Kosher’s relationship with the Gluten-Free Certification Organization (GFCO), a program of the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG).” SOURCE: oukosher.org Text Box: Jewish Celiacs Newsletter

History of Celiac Disease 2

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Inquirer on Triumph Dining 

McDonald’s Gluten Problem

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Harry’s Natural Foods      Singapore, Mr. Ritt’s Bakery

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Celiac Sprue Association

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FDA Classified Whole Grains

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Book Rev.: Gluten-Free Bible, Jewish Diseases: list of them

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Symptom/Results of C.D.

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Celiac Restaurants/Bakeries

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Kosher Restaurants in Philly

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Yin & Yang Producing Foods

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