<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>

Celiac Colleagues:

 

I am writing to call your attention to the current publicity surrounding the
new book, The G-free Diet, A Gluten-Free Survival Guide by Elisabeth
Hassselbeck, co-host of The View.  While it is important to call attention
to celiac disease, the information must be accurate - the inaccuracies in
this book are potentially dangerous and detrimental to celiacs and to those
yet to be diagnosed if people self diagnose and start eating GF. Our mission
is to assist in getting people accurately diagnosed and the message in this
book could defeat this mission.  It appears that this book is being marketed
as a fitness diet - eat g-free and feel so much better. Celiac is
incorrectly referred to as an allergy not an autoimmune disease.  

 

The GF diet is the medically mediated prescription that controls the
condition for a diagnosed celiac. Several items in the book are misleading
and inaccurate and place further limitations on the GF diet.  The
gluten-free lifestyle is a lifelong commitment for the diagnosed celiac, not
an option, not a fad diet - adhering to the GF lifestyle requires patience
and persistence.  This lifestyle can not be trivialized.

 

Elisabeth will be interviewed on Larry King Live this evening on CNN.
PLEASE take the time to call in to the show or send an email to Larry King
Live to help correct some of this misinformation.

 

Email Larry King Live at:  http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.lkl.html

The phone number for call-ins to the show is 1-800-676-2100.

 

Thank you.

 

Elaine Monarch

Founder & Executive Director



 

13251 Ventura Blvd. Suite 1

Studio City, CA 91604

818-990-2354 phone

818-990-2379 fax

 <http://www.celiac.org/> www.celiac.org 

 


*Support summarization of posts, reply to the SENDER not the Celiac List*
Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC