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Living Without Magazine/Spring, 2005
Featuring
yours truly (Wheat-Free Wonder) in its close-up section,
Life Story - and stay tuned for excerpts from The
Gluten-Free Bible and No More Cupcakes &
Tummy Aches in a future issue. It's enough to turn a
girl's head!
Q: How Many Celiacs Does It Take to Change
a Label?
A: All of us!
The
Food Allergen Bill (S.741) was signed into law by President
George W. Bush on August 2, 2004! The law, requiring food
manufacturers to label the top eight offenders – eggs,
fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soybeans, tree nuts, and wheat
– and to use plain English like "milk" or
"wheat" rather than less familiar words like "casein"
or "semolina" on labels, will go into effect on
January 1, 2006. No longer will we have to track down the
source of, let's say, starch or dextrin. If the product is
made in the U.S. and the ingredient is derived from wheat,
the label must disclose that fact. Next step: A label that
discloses all sources of gluten. There's nothing determined
celiacs can't accomplish.
Read
full press release from The Center for Science in the
Public Interest
Read
Senate
Bill S.741 in its entirety.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Panel
Finds Celiac Disease Under-Diagnosed
Panel Recommends Six Key Strategies
for Disease Management
Bethesda, Maryland
– Celiac disease is considerably under-diagnosed, according
to an independent consensus panel convened by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). The panel, charged with assessing
all of the available scientific evidence on celiac disease
announced today its recommendations for the appropriate diagnosis
and management of this disease, which was previously believed
to be rare. Celiac disease may affect 3 million Americans.
The disease is present in 0.5 to 1% of the U.S. population,
ten times higher than previous estimates.
Read
the full press release.
Appearances,
Book Signings...
The
calendar is filling up. There's story telling for the children,
and talks for adults, and there are books for everybody, even
a few cooking demonstrations with my talented friends. Watch
this space for dates, places, bookstores and support groups
I'll be visiting. And don't forget, if you invite me and I'm
free, I'll come. Watch this page for a Jax near you.
Thursday,
March 10, 2005
Jax reads and signs No More Cupcakes and Tummy
Aches, followed by Cupcake Making with Lee Tobin Whole
Foods Market, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Saturday,
March 12, 2005
Jax discusses and signs No More Cupcakes and
Tummy Aches and The Gluten-Free Bible, followed
by Cooking Class with Lee Tobin Whole Foods Market, Atlanta,
Georgia.
Friday,
March 18, 2005
Talk, Discussion and Book Signing, Philadelphia Area
Support Group, Abington Hospital, Abington, PA.
Sunday,
April 3, 2005
CSA Regional Conference Tyson Sheraton Premier, Tyson's
Corner, VA Cooking Demonstration with Lee Tobin. Adult talk.
Story time with the children.
Saturday,
May 21, 2005-
Celiac Disease Foundation Annual Conference,
Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angles, California.
September
30-October 2, 2005
CSA National Conference Washington, D.C.
Visit
this space often for new dates and places…
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