By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

Allie Moss, if you don’t already know her, is a singer from New Jersey. Her debut album “Late Bloomer” was released in 2009 and she is probably best known for her song, Corner, which was a big hit in the UK and has been featured on a couple of popular US shows, including Pretty Little Liars and Parenthood.

We are constantly hearing about the latest celebrity going gluten-free in an attempt to lose weight so it’s nice when we come across a celeb who is eating gluten-free because, like most of us, they have to.

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By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

We are fast approaching the spookiest time of year again. Costume stores are opening up all over the country, pumpkins are on sale everywhere you look and Halloween lovers are decorating their homes with spider webs and creepy creatures!

As if all of this wasn’t awesome enough, one of the really fun things about this time of the year is that candy manufacturers are bringing out their Halloween candy! Gummy pumpkins, squishy spiders, gooey witches, chocolate skulls. But which of these spooky snacks are gluten-free and safe for us to devour on these fast drawing in October nights?

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By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

With the lack of gluten-free labeling legislation in the US, sticking to a 100% gluten-free diet can often be challenging. So what if there were a simpler way for celiacs to ensure their food was free from cross contamination and safe to eat?

Many companies offering ‘gluten free’ products already have testing methods to look for traces of gluten in their products, but often these are expensive and perhaps less simple than they might be. How about if you could test your own food for traces of gluten?

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By Bridget

Although many are fed up with all of the gluten-free celebrity hype that has been taking over the headlines of gluten-free news, a recent headline may catch some attention. Emeril Lagasse, the famed restaurateur, chef, and TV personality, best known for catchphrases from “Bam!” to “Kick it up a notch!”, has been a supporter of the gluten-free community for over ten years for reasons very close to his heart – his two daughters. Both daughters were diagnosed with gluten intolerances back in 2001 and 2004, one of whom has full blown Celiac disease.

The women have been working together, along with the support of their dad, to write a gluten-free cookbook that brings all their favorite gluten-free meals and recipes in one book. In their new book, “The Gluten-Free Table: The Lagasse Girls Share Their Favorite Meals,” both Lagasse women have made it their mission to find gluten-free recipes that aren’t flavor-free or laced with a funky aftertaste. By using natural gluten-free flours – from almond flour for flourless Click to continue reading »

By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

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Many new parents have concerns about when they should begin giving their child gluten, especially if they themselves have issues with the protein.

Some research suggests that feeding your baby gluten from the age of four months could help lessen the chance of them going on to develop celiac disease.

In the mid-1980s Sweden began reporting a great increase in babies and toddlers with celiac disease. From 1984-1996 cases of celiac disease in children under two quadrupled but after 1996, occurrences decreased again.

Two years prior to the epidemic, Swedish authorities and nutritionists revised their recommendations for infant feeding in an attempt to prevent celiac disease.

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By Emily

It seems like every few weeks we’re writing with news of another celebrity or professional athlete who has gone gluten-free. The comments are mixed — some of you are glad for increased attention to the cause, others are concerned for the wrong attention being paid to the cause. But I think today’s gluten-free celebrity will garner generally positive feedback.

You may know Jennifer Esposito from television series like Blue Bloods, Samantha Who?, Rescue Me, and Judging Amy, or her roles in the movies Crash, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, etc etc. But did you know that not only does Jennifer Esposito have celiac disease — she’s started a nonprofit to help with celiac education? Hooray!

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By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

Shark Tank, the ABC Dragons’ Den style show, last week featured a gluten-free cookie business!

Liz Lovely, Vegan and Gluten Free Cookies from Waitsfield, Vermont is a family run business founded by Liz and Dan Holtz. Liz and Dan are high-school sweethearts with a sweet love story and now an even sweeter company.

Not everything they make is gluten free but they offer a good variety of delicious sounding gluten free sweet treats – gluten free chocolate fudge cookies, gluten-free snickerdoodle cookies and gluten free lovely oh’s. Yum! These treats are made in their artisan bakery in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

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By Bridget

Add Fran Drescher to the list of celebs touting a gluten-free diet like the latest fashion trend. The actress, perhaps best known for her role as The Nanny has recently revealed that a gluten-free and vegan diet has helped her “knock off” the fifteen pounds that have been plaguing her for years, helping alleviate constant fatigue and a generally dragging feeling.

The actress was partially inspired to try the gluten-free diet as an alternative to following a regime of medications that would, supposedly, alleviate her symptoms. Fortunately for her, Drescher feels much more energetic than before, and credits her new diet with her revitalization.

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By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

 Last week many celiacs across the United States were happy to hear that the US senate had designated September 13^th, 2012 as “National Celiac Disease Awareness Day”.

September 13^th was chosen as the date as it is the birth date of Samuel Gee. Samuel was a pediatrician who published the first complete clinical description of celiac disease back in 1888. He was also the first to recognize that the symptoms of celiac disease are related to the diet.

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By Laura (The Gluten-Free Traveller)

Last month we discussed the links between celiac disease and type 1 diabetes and unfortunately there are many people who must deal with both of these life-long autoimmune disorders. Researchers are finding rising rates of celiac disease in patients already coping with type 1 diabetes.

As a result of these rising figures, a research team from the Children’s Medical Center of Israel tried to assess what effect, if any, celiac disease has on growth and glycemic controls in patients with type 1 and the effects of sticking to a strict gluten-free diet on these parameters.

The researchers conducted a longitudinal retrospective case-control study using medical records of 68 patients with type 1 and biopsy confirmed celiac disease. They looked at weight, height, hemoglobin A1c, the frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis and severe hypoglycemic events both before and after diagnosis and changing to a strict gluten-free diet. The results from these findings were then compared with 131 patients with type 1 but without celiac disease.

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