Body Image and Celiac Disease Part Three: Eating Disorders and CD

In the last post of this series, I asked these questions: 1. Did anyone ever think you had an eating disorder before your diagnosis of celiac disease? How did they, or did they not, approach you if they thought you did? 2. What do you think are the similarities between eating disordersand celiac disease?  I was not at Read More …

Locally Gluten Free: Strictly Gluten Free Now Open!

Strictly Gluten Free396A Larkfield RoadEast Northport, NY 11731www.StrictlyGlutenFree.Com In November of last year I wrote this post about a local entrepreneur seeking to open an entirely gluten free supermarket. Steve and his wife Angela have been tirelessly working on making their dream a reality, with Steve having also become a board member of the Suffolk Read More …

Facing Discrimination with Celiac Disease and Food Allergies

Get ready, I’m going to get ‘Social Worky’ on you. Let’s talk about a topic many of us only talk about in school or when getting trained at work: Discrimination. While it exists in our world way too often, many of us grow up being told not to judge and discriminate people based on their looks. Read More …

Body Image and Celiac Disease Part Two: Slim is in, but to what point?

In my last post on Body Image and Celiac Disease  I asked these questions: 1. Do you think our American culture’s views on Body Image and weight influences and/or hinder our treatment and/or diagnosis of Celiac Disease?  2.  If you have Celiac Disease, did such perceptions have any impact on your seeking treatment and/or receiving and Read More …

Gluten Free News Round-Up: November 13th-19th

Pizza as a VegetableBacked by the American Frozen Food Institute and other food industries, US House of Reps decided this week that pizza, because it contains 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce, still constitutes a vegetable. This drastically undermines the efforts by Obama and other individuals to improve the quality of our school meals, something that is integral Read More …