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Archive for August 6, 2010
Celiacs Disease
01 year ago
Last weekend, we headed to Maryland to visit Scott’s cousin Stacy and her family. His Aunt and Uncle were in town from California to celebrate Stacy’s daughter, Sophie’s 2nd birthday. It’s nice to spend time with family – the kids love it. It’s too bad we don’t live near more family.
Stacy has Celiac Disease and it looks like Sophie does too.
Celiac disease is a digestive condition triggered by consumption of the protein gluten, which is found in bread, pasta, cookies, pizza crust and many other foods containing wheat, barley or rye. If you have celiac disease and eat foods containing gluten, an immune reaction occurs in your small intestine, causing damage to the surface of your small intestine and an inability to absorb certain nutrients
They have to use different plates, cooking pans and other stuff just so nothing with gluten can mix with what they are eating. Gluten free living is so much better than being sick all the time. For the birthday party – they had a regular cake and a gluten free one – which was not half bad!
What I am finding out is there are a ton of people out there that either have Celiac Disease or an allergy or sensitivity to gluten. So I came across this website – Gluten-Free Girl that has some good information and recipes about living a Gluten free life!
Food is the path to healing in celiac. There is no pill we can take, no surgery we can endure, and in fact, no cure other than living on an entirely gluten-free diet. Some find that distressing. I find it a blessing.
Colon Cancer Research and University of Arizona!
11 year ago
Researcher Awarded $1.8M to Develop Colon Cancer Therapy | UANews.org.
I’m an U of Arizona alum so I am always in support of Wildcats! Arizona Cancer Center is a well known cancer research center – Congrats to Emmanuelle J. Meuillet!
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant to an Arizona Cancer Center researcher to study the role of inflammation in colon carcinogenesis and to develop a new therapy to treat colon cancer.
“People affected with Inflammatory Bowel Disease are at higher risk to develop colon cancer,” said principal investigator Emmanuelle J. Meuillet, an Arizona Cancer Center member and associate professor of nutritional sciences and molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona.
Weight Loss Finding: Cash Incentives Fail to Help Some Lose Pounds
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Health/Nutrition
(Aug. 6) — Americans have never been fatter. Here’s one reason it will be hard to turn that around: You can’t even pay people to shed weight.
Out this month in the journal Applied Economics Letters is new research by Nicholas Burger and John Lynham. The study’s conclusion is that even when people bet they’ll lose weight — sometimes putting down big money — they still can’t take off the pounds. A full 80 percent of overweight bettors lost their wagers. “Humans are impatient,” Lynham, an economics professor at the University of Hawaii, told AOL News. “And we have impulses that go against our long-term best interests — even when those interests include money.”
via Weight Loss Finding: Cash Incentives Fail to Help Some Lose Pounds.
