Dealing with Those Who are Intolerant of Your Gluten Intolerance
If you tell your co-workers that you are not eating fat or sugar because you want to lose weight, they support you. If you say that certain vegetables upset your stomach, no one tries to slip them to you to see if you are being honest. Then why is it that when you tell people [...]
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse Launches Gluten Free Pizza & Beer Today
May 25, 2010 by Nancy
Filed under News, Restaurant Reviews
Special thanks to FB friend Tami House for the heads up on the fact that she tried BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse’s new gluten free pizza before it was announced. After researching it and contacting a BJ’s restaurant and headquarters myself, I found that it is officially available at all BJ’s restaurants beginning today (May 26), [...]
Food Allergies: 5 Myths Debunked
How to tell a food allergy from an intolerance or sensitivity — and what to do about it. Below is a summary of a WebMD article which helps differentiate between allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities. The author attempts to help the reader articulate which of the 3 food issues he suffers from. Read the entire WebMD [...]
Enter the Chex Party Mix Recipe Contest and you may win $5000!
Put your creative cooking to work to win and put the Gluten Free category on the map! “Creative consumer cooks can stir up their culinary creativity in the 2010 Chex(R) Party Mix Recipe Contest. Chex cereals and Katie Lee, best-selling cookbook author and entertaining expert, kicked off this year’s recipe contest at www.ChexPartyMix.com. Creative cooks [...]
Poll: How long before you first began to see results after going Gluten Free?
If you began a gluten free diet/lifestyle expecting to see a change in your health, how you feel emotionally, to improve uncomfortable symptoms, improve health or behavior of a child, to improve focus, or hoping for any other of a long list of positive results from the change, how long did it take for you [...]
The Intolerant Family Cookbook: Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Family Friendly Food
May 23, 2010 by Nancy
Filed under Book Reviews
By Ellen Fitzsimmons & Molly Lepenska This new cookbook is written by Mom, Ellen, who is gluten and dairy intolerant and daughter, Molly, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in her early twenties. Instead of giving up the food they love, they live by the motto, “When life gives you gluten intolerance, make gluten [...]
Eat at UNO May 24-30 and Raise Dough for Celiac
Uno Chicago Grill will host a national Dough Rai$er from May 24th through the 30th to benefit the American Celiac Disease Alliance in support of National Celiac Awareness Month in May. How to Participate: 1. Print a voucher 2. Bring it in when you eat at Uno between May 24-30 3. 20% goes to support [...]
Does Gluten Free/Casein Free Diet Really Help Autism?
Many in the medical community debate the effects of a gluten free/casein free diet on autistic kids, but I fail to see why. Story after story documents the enormous changes that parents see in their autistic children when their diets are altered. Even those of us with gluten sensitive kids who don’t have autism often [...]
Do C-Sections Increase the Risk of Celiac Disease?
Children who develop celiac disease appear to be more likely to be born by cesarean section, German researchers say. According to Dr. Mathias Hornef, from Hannover Medical School in Germany, and his colleagues, how a child is born can affect the bacterial mixes in their intestines, so they wondered if this could relate to people [...]
Gluten-Free Menus a Big Hit at Major League Ballparks
“In recognition of May as National Celiac Awareness Month, ARAMARK – the food and beverage partner for 12 Major League Baseball teams – is proud to reaffirm its commitment to making gluten-free fare more accessible to fans with celiac disease. ARAMARK has been at the forefront of this movement, debuting what is believed to be [...]
