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BEYOND RICE CAKES
By Vanessa Maltin Welcome to the first edition of Beyond Rice Cakes, a monthly lifestyle column that in a humorous way will explore life with celiac disease and hopefully motivate you to live a happy and healthy gluten-free life. Before we get started, let me introduce myself. My name is Vanessa Maltin and I am the director of outreach and programming at the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. I was diagnosed with celiac disease when I was 21 years old after interviewing Alice Bast for a story I was writing for the Palm Beach Post newspaper. My editor assigned me to cover the NIH Consensus Conference and I was shocked to learn that migraine headaches were a symptom of celiac disease. With my article in hand, I went straight to my doctor to get tested. Sure enough, I was positive. I was so thankful for being diagnosed that I had to get involved with the foundation. The first big project I worked on with NFCA was writing Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person’s Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free. The book offers hilarious first-person tales of the trials and tribulations associated with celiac disease including the often embarrassing side effects and surviving college without beer. More importantly, it guides newly diagnosed celiacs—especially young celiacs—through managing a healthy gluten-free diet that is easy and fun to maintain. The book contains more than 150 easy-to-make recipes including snacks and finger foods, soups and salads, main dishes and desserts. The pages are filled with advice from experts for maintaining a gluten-free diet and humorous stories that illustrate the realities of life with celiac disease. Since the book was released in September, we’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response and decided to extend the messages from the book into this monthly column. That said, I call on you, our readers and members of the celiac community, to submit questions and topics for Beyond Rice Cakes to explore. Whether it is an interest in gluten-free beer or a question about the best type of gluten-free flour to use for chocolate chip cookies, send your comments to editor@celiaccentral.org. Every month, I’ll personally sort through all of your submissions and choose a topic to write about that will help everyone with celiac improve their gluten-free lifestyle. So send in your submissions to editor@celiaccentral.org and make sure to read next month’s newsletter to see if your topic was selected! Sincerely, Vanessa Maltin |
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