Gluten-Free Support Meeting for the Gluten Free Support Group of SW WA, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington

Gluten-Free Support Meeting for the Gluten Free Support Group of SW WA, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington

Agenda: Lisa Angst will present her book, Living Well with Diet Restrictions
Free Gluten Free Pasta Gift Basket Raffle!!!!
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2014
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location: Public Safety Complex at the Clark County Fairgrounds
(beautiful new building)
505 NW 179th Street, Ridgefield. ½ mile west of I-5, Exit 9.
Cost: Free
For Information: Contact Maureen at 360-571-8998

CeliAction Study

If you are ready to take action, the CeliAction Study may be right for you. The CeliAction Study is a clinical research study evaluating an investigational drug for celiac disease.

If you are diagnosed with celiac disease, on a gluten-free diet and have experienced at least one moderate or severe symptom in the past month, you may qualify for the study.

If you qualify and choose to participate, you will:

• Be able to maintain your current gluten-free diet
• Be provided with all study-related care at no cost
• Help advance medical research for celiac disease

Health insurance is not required to take part and financial compensation may be provided.

To learn more and see if you qualify, please visit www.CeliActionStudy.com or call toll free 1-855-8142-ACT.

Kyra's Bake Shop

News from the new location of Kyra's Bake Shop in Lake Oswego. You order at the counter, then they'll bring it to the table. Casual foods: sandwiches, etc. All 100% gluten-free. Just down the street from her original gluten-free bakery.

New address:
Kyra's Bake Shop
599 A Avenue
Lake Oswego

Kyra: "It's taking it's sweet time, but we promise the new space will be worth it! #kyrasbakeshop will be closed after Monday so we can move in and get organized and then we will debut our new location! #treatandrepeat #comevisitus"

Read more about the expansion here: http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/eat-beat/articles/gluten-free-kyras-bake-shop-expanding-into-bigger-brighter-cafe-september-2014

Gluten-Free Support Meeting for the Gluten Free Support Group of SW WA, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington

Gluten-Free Support Meeting for the Gluten Free Support Group of SW WA, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington

Agenda: Lisa Angst will present her book, Living Well with Diet Restrictions
Free Gluten Free Pasta Gift Basket Raffle!!!!
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2014
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location: Public Safety Complex at the Clark County Fairgrounds
(beautiful new building)
505 NW 179th Street, Ridgefield. ½ mile west of I-5, Exit 9.
Cost: Free
For Information: Contact Maureen at 360-571-8998

GF Support Group Meeting

Gluten-Free Support Meeting for the Gluten Free Support Group of SW WA, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington
Agenda: Lisa Angst will present her book, Living Well with Diet Restrictions
Free Gluten Free Pasta Gift Basket Raffle!!!!
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2014
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Location: Public Safety Complex at the Clark County Fairgrounds
(beautiful new building)
505 NW 179th Street, Ridgefield. ½ mile west of I-5, Exit 9.
Cost: Free
For Information: Contact Maureen at 360-571-8998

Gluten in Tazo Tea

Tea- Some tea bags contain additives (usually labelled as “natural flavors”) that contain a small trace of gluten. The Tazo brand popularly sold at most starbucks locations has this additive and therefore is not gluten-free. The following flavors definitely contain gluten: Green Ginger, Tazo Honeybush, Lemon Ginger and Tea Lemonade. This probably won’t affect most people unless you have celiac disease and are vulnerable to small traces of gluten.
-GIG of Greater Dallas

Grain Station Restaurant

Next time you are in McMinnville, check out the 
Grain Station Brew Works at 755 NE Alpine Ave, Suite 200, 
McMinnville, Oregon, 503-687-BREW
for a delicious variety of gluten free choices. My son ate there 
with his friends and they enjoyed it all!

OLD-FASHIONED PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
Flourless, Gluten Free, and Guilt Free
Recipe from “The Complete Low-Carb Cookbook” 2014
by George Stella / stellastyle.com

These Peanut Butter Cookies may be called “Old-Fashioned” but they don’t have any of the carbs, gluten, or added sugar that you’d find in the cookies of yesteryear! Makes 16 cookies.
FULL RECIPE HERE--->
https://www.facebook.com/LowCarbingAmongFriends/photos/a.291353690889162.73895.288234024534462/882956715062187/?type=1&theater
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See More of my Recipes on Pinterest--->
http://www.pinterest.com/thegeorgestella/low-carb/

Cultured Caveman PDX

We make our own grain free tortillas at the restaurant. They're cool because they hold up to heat and moisture and they're flexible and take on the taste of whatever you put in it. Like add blueberries and almond butter and you have yourself a crepe, or add carnitas and it's a taco!

It's our most requested recipe and we're kind of open source around here... after all... everything is a remix! Enjoy!!!

Tortillas/Crepes
4 Eggs
1/2 cup Tapioca Flour
1 Tablespoon Coconut Flour
1 Tablespoon melted Coconut Oil

1. Combine all ingredients
2. Spread ¼ cup batter on pan and cook for 1-2 minutes each side (if you have a tortilla press... totes use it!)

-Heather

A gluten free tip that might work for your migraines!

Lia Schae Avoiding aspartame, soy, dairy, corn, gluten, saccharin, truvia, Splenda, mold, and taking d3, l-glutamine in the morning with rhodiola and calcium/magnesium at night have been the keys to avoiding migraines for me. Going hungry, thunderstorms, hormones are still triggers. P.s. I am allergic to NSAIDs.

-Delight Gluten Free Magazine

Superfood Breakfast Tacos
~gluten-free

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups sweet potato (peel on), chopped into ½” pieces
½ yellow onion, chopped
1 14-ounce can black beans
4 cups tightly packed kale leaves, chopped
9 eggs
½ teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Salt to taste

http://www.primaverakitchen.com/superfood-breakfast-tacos-let-eat-kale-giveaway/

GIG of Portland Says:

WHY GET TESTED FOR CELIAC DISEASE WHEN YOU CAN JUST GO GLUTEN-FREE??

ALWAYS GET TESTED FOR CELIAC DISEASE when you are on a gluten-containing diet before you decide to try to go gluten-free!

Reasons to know if you have celiac disease (CD) or non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS) before you go gluten-free are below. NCGS DOES effect the immune system, thought it is not the auto-immune aspect of our immune system. Once you go gluten-free and feel fabulous, it can be disastrous (symptoms are often worse as your immune system becomes hypervigilant to gluten) trying to reintroduce gluten back into your diet for the sake of testing. So get tested before going gluten-free.

I do not agree with the hundreds, maybe thousands of practitioners, nutritionists, health coaches, personal trainers, well-meaning co-workers or relatives who tell their patients/clients/friends, "just try going gluten-free" or "try this grain-free/Paleo diet" without being tested for celiac disease. These are some of the reasons why off the top of my head:

1) With a diagnosis of celiac disease you are indeed offered protection under the ADA, and can take all the expense of creating a gluten-free household off on your taxes (cooking pans/cutting boards/tupperware out and Pyrex containers/wood utensils/all plastic utensils + spatulas,etc) because it is a medically necessary condition, as well as the DIFFERENCE between the costs of regular gluten item and the GF item. Ask your accountant. If they don't know what you are talking about, find someone who does. There are many, many well-written detailed blog posts about this, so I won't elaborate it here.

2) with a diagnosis of CD, you can then have your gastroenterologist follow up with repeat blood work in 6 months and 12 months as well as a repeat endoscopy in 12 months to determine the level of healing/remaining damage AND it's covered by insurance. Prior to your endoscopy, interview your gastroenterologist to be sure that they will take 4-6 biopsies which is the standard of care. Most GI's only take 2 b/c they are busy. They need to take 2 from the duodenal bulb and 4 from the duodenum itself. If they want a 50% increased chance of diagnosing celiac disease, then they do a "jejeunal push" which means they push the endoscope into the next section of the intestine, the jejeunum and take a biopsy from there. Research shows a 50% increase in detection CD. (REMEMBER: lab work and endoscopy are not perfect, just standard.)

3) with CD you have a lab test that defines what is going on. With a diagnosis of CD, ALL your 1st and 2nd degree relatives should be tested and this would be covered by insurance b/c there is a family history. CD is genetic. A genetic test rules in or out the possibility of celiac disease. 30-40% of us have the celiac gene and only about 1% of the population has celiac disease. So having the gene tells you it's possible. Not having the gene tells you it's highly unlikely. You can also get gene subtyping done which tells you if you do have the gene how likely it is that you have celiac disease. Enterolab.com does this test. In Canada a lab runs the GeneSure from glutenpro.com. Celiac disease is an inherited permanent condition, and it the genes can express themselves at ANY age - 4 yrs old, 14 yrs old, 40 yrs old or 80 yrs old. If there is a relative with CD then any 1st or 2nd degree relative eating wheat/gluten who has new symptoms should be retested for CD.

4) whether CD or NCGS, you need to be 100% GF b/c research shows with "cheating" or gluten-contamination, there is an increased risk of intestinal cancer with repeated post-diagnosis exposure to gluten. And just because you have NCGS, you can have as severe if not more severe reactions to gluten than someone with CD. It works both ways. There is silent CD where the person eats gluten and doesn't feel a thing - nothing. They have chronic iron deficiency anemia or osteoporosis or elevated liver enzymes - and you don't "feel" those. They might have headaches, or fatigue or joint pain. A person with NCGS might have severe stomach or abdominal pain or diarrhea or extreme gas or heartburn, or all of the above. NCGS does NOT mean less severe symptoms.

5) there are associated cancers for you and your PCP/Gastro to watch out for including thyroid cancer, stomach cancer, intestinal and colon cancer. Knowing that you actually do have CD means your insurance will pay for more regular scans such as an early colonoscopy before 40 years old, more regular ultrasounds, etc.
6) there is an increased risk for associated auto-immune disease with a CD diagnosis: Hashimotos thyroid, Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, adult autoimmune diabetes, autoimmune hepatitis, etc. and your PCP should screen you for these.

7) any person with CD should get a DEXA scan to ascertain bone density ASAP, even children to rule out osteoporosis - and it's covered by insurance b/c of the CD diagnosis. I've seen a 16 year old soccer player break her hip - she had just been diagnosed with celiac disease and they didn't do a bone scan.

8) your PCP or Gastro will run a full panel of vitamin and mineral lab tests to ascertain if you have a vit/min deficiency and it's covered by insurance. If you have mild, moderate or severe intestinal damage, you might have severe vitamin and mineral deficiency that needs to be addressed.

9) your holistic physician can help you heal and seal your gut and help you avoid foods that cross-react with gluten. Some foods MAY cross-react, meaning that the body mistakes them for gluten and reacts to them just like gluten, even though they are otherwise nutritious non-gluten containing foods. Important to seek help of someone who specializes in celiac disease. I've heard too many complaints of a PCP or GI saying, "You have CD, go gluten-free" and that's the end of it. Well, that's just the start!

OKAY - these are just off the top of my head. If ANYONE thinks that it's okay to tell a person to "just go gluten-free" without being tested for celiac disease first, they are insane, or just plain uneducated about the great risks they are taking with the lives of those to whom they have given that poor advice.

Do WHATEVER tests you can to rule in or rule out celiac disease FIRST before going gluten-free.

Meeting Tomorrow, Don't Miss It!

GF Support Meeting

Gluten Free Support Group, formerly the Gluten Intolerance Group of Southwest Washington

October Meeting

Agenda:  Holiday Meal Planning and Recipes.  Taste gluten-free samples.  Take home our  menus and collections of recipes.

Date:  Saturday, October 11, 2014

Time:  10:00 am – 11:30 am

Location:  Public Safety Complex at the Clark County Fairgrounds, 505 NW 179^th Street, Ridgefield.  ½ mile west of I-5, Exit 9.

Cost:  Free admission

For Information: Contact Maureen at 360-571-8998

GF Support Meeting

GF Support Meeting

Gluten Free Support Group, formerly the Gluten Intolerant Group of Southwest Washington

October Meeting

Agenda:  Holiday Meal Planning and Recipes.  Taste gluten-free samples.  Take home our  menus and collections of recipes.

Date:  Saturday, October 11, 2014

Time:  10:00 am – 11:30 am

Location:  Public Safety Complex at the Clark County Fairgrounds, 505 NW 179^th Street, Ridgefield.  ½ mile west of I-5, Exit 9.

Cost:  Free admission

For Information: Contact Maureen at 360-571-8998

Dr. Rodney Ford at Cultured Caveman Restaurant

Tonight at 6pm, we will be hosting Dr. Rodney Ford at the restaurant to talk about his new book, Gluten-Related Disorders. Come with questions!!!!

-H

Portland is lucky!!! Dr Rodney Ford will be in Portland on Thursday Oct 9th from 6pm - 8pm at Cultured Caveman 8233 N Denver (Kenton neighborhood and MAX stop) in North Portland to discuss his new book Gluten-Related Disorders.

Free - but come hungry and order dinner to thank the restaurant for letting us dominate the tables that would normally be taken up by paying customers! We don't want to reduce their nightly revenue for being kind to us to provide a safe gluten-free space. AND their food is YUMMY!

Cultured Caveman is a 100% gluten-free restaurant - come and show your love by purchasing a dinner from them and enjoying the entertaining talk by Dr Ford. He's a virtual encyclopedia on all things gluten! Brought to you by GIG of Portland!

Please share and let everyone know of this amazing event!! We are so lucky to have Dr Ford in Portland on his US book tour.

If you can't make it Thursday, he'll be in McMinnville on Saturday speaking for the GIG of Mcminnville group in the Willamette wine country, 11am to 1pm at the McMinnville First Baptist Church right downtown - 125 SE Cowls St, McMinnville, OR 97128. $10 suggested donation includes a healthy light lunch. Please RSVP to glutenfreefriendsmcminnville@gmail.com!

Gluten Free Support Group Email

Hello!

    I am sending this email out to all the contacts in the old GIG group to let you know that I am updating the email list.  The group has changed from a GIG group to a Gluten Free Support Group.  The difference is in the administration of the group, not in the meetings.  The meetings continue to be a great opportunity to learn about Gluten Free as well as develop friendships and support for each other in our Gluten Free lives.  If you would like to still receive emails about meetings and current goings on, please respond back to me.  If I do not hear from you I will assume that you do not want to be contacted by the group and I will delete your email from the list.

Thank You!

Tori Denfeld

denfelds@yahoo.com