Go Gluten-Free With Elisabeth Hasselbeck
(NOTE: The reason for this post is to let everyone know who struggles with this issue that Juice PLUS is gluten free)
The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck shares tips for boosting your energy levels and choosing deliciously healthy foods in her book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide.
Gluten-free diets [1] are all the rage these days as way to lose weight, but the trend has its roots in a very serious and debilitating health condition: celiac disease. Putting a name and face to this often misunderstood disease is Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of the ABC morning talk show The View, New York Times bestselling author, clothing designer (for Dialogue by Elisabeth Hasselbeck), wife of NFL commentator Tim Hasselbeck, and mother of three. When Hasselbeck wrote The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, she shared her journey from mysterious symptoms and embarrassment to an accurate diagnosis and lifestyle changes that have left her looking and feeling better than ever.
www.everydayhealth.com/new-year-new-you/go-gluten-free-with-elisabeth-hasselbeck.aspx [2]
Mardy's Note: 12/8/11: The distributor who provided this content on Lumigrate at my encouragement and with my support in the past has messaged through Lumigrate to request the content he provided be removed as he doesn't wish to participate in this 'effort' anymore. The forums at Lumigrate are a social media format, similar to facebook. That would be like contacting facebook and saying "take everything I ever commented on or posted off". Many conversations and exchanges of other providers are woven in 'threads' and that would be disrespectful to the other forum participants who gave their time and energy to participate in the 'social' media of Lumigrate's forums. However, I have changed the UserName to be Juice Plus 007, removed the photo, and am posting this in the signature and removing the contact information that is set up in the signature in order to make it clear this contributor no longer wants to be 'connected' with the posts. Additionally, as time permits, I will work to replace the content with similar but that will entail selecting another person distributing for Juice Plus. I wanted JP represented on Lumigrate because it is a well-known company based on the concept of supplementing fruits and vegetables. Also because JP reaches many people due to it's vast number of distributors; there are 10 in Grand Junction, population 50k or so. In addition to removing the information in the signature for contact, I have changed the username and email address associated with it to route to me if anyone were to send a "private message" to JP007. My first step will be to edit out any internal contact information/links to the requestor. I guess you call this an "imposter"? Grins! I hope this is a clear statement for the users of Lumigrate to view related YOUR forum area and how I manage it. After all, it is YOUR health education (and mine) I'm advocating for but Lumigrate, at the end of the day, is my website. I care a great deal about the users of Lumigrate feeling they are being treated well and providing a forum area which is a FUN place to come get valid, progressive information in a streamlined way when searching for health information our audience of consumers is seeking.
Links:
[1] http://www.everydayhealth.com/weight/gluten-free-diet-a-worthy-weight-loss-option.aspx
[2] http://www.everydayhealth.com/new-year-new-you/go-gluten-free-with-elisabeth-hasselbeck.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthManagingDiabetes_20110110
[3] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-gluten#comment-923
[4] http://www.lumigrate.com/blog/celiac-disease-ibs-ibs-ibs-its-bs-elisabeth-hasselbeck-dr-oz-today
[5] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[6] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/whole-food-nutrition-gluten#top
[7] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/login?destination=node/656%23comment-form
[8] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/register?destination=node/656%23comment-form
Comments
It's good to get more related to this, as I'd covered her and the book when it came out last year. I saw on The View yesterday that it's just been released in paperback. That piece has had a good number of reads at Lumigrate, so we know it's an interest. (Link to follow).
I'd also like to add to what you posted here, that celiac disesase is what has lead to the GF interest -- I disgree to some extent. I believe there are tons of people who are realizing there are food allergies and sensitivities at play in the burgeoning chronic illness numbers -- everything from behavior and ear infections with babies and children to arthritis in older people. What I find amazing is that when my health issues were baffling my medical team in 1995, I found a book at the health food store related to wheat and MS which was instrumental in my getting food allergy testing done and 'cleaning up my act' with eating like a 'normal American', and in retrospect, a great degree of my ups and downs with my health have come with my sticking with that. (Problem for me is that I can eat dairy and wheat when doing well and not see any negative effects, so you end up bluffed into thinking you can get away with it --- but in reality the body is compensating, as it has a tremendous ability to do so, in my opinion. And when you do too much of that for a while and maybe some other factors feed in like stress from life besides foods, and pretty soon, I find myself fighting my way out getting pulled down the drain.
I encourage everyone to think about it as a balance .... picture the old fashioned scale, perhaps. The more positives you do, the more it offsets the negatives and you can find a balance or go up and away, OR down the drain. I recommend change can begin most easily with adding things to what you're doing that are positives and then start changing the things which you're wanting to give up.
Nutrition is one of the key places to start with that, and exercise/movement and breathing/meditation a couple others at the top of the list. ALL of which can be done for $0 change out of your overall budget OR cost a great deal of money, depending upon what someone's situation is related to how they chose to spend and what they have to spend (two VERY different things, obviously). I'm all about providing those options here, and Juice Plus offers ONE good solution for SOME people.
Additionally, if it's not something each person wants to purchase, at least the information can be utilized for the sake of knowledge. So thank you for providing this, Tom. It's good to know the company is aware of GF, so if someone has no sensitivities to foods and cannot obtain all their nutrition from eating super nutritious foods, this is a product that offers supplementation. AND by having the person who distributes it be a phone call away and a resource that knows that person individually, this form of marketing is something that has clearly appealed to people increasingly.
Link to the piece in the Gluten/Food Allergies portion of Lumigrate's forum, which had about 1,000 reads in a year is:
www.lumigrate.com/blog/celiac-disease-ibs-ibs-ibs-its-bs-elisabeth-hasselbeck-dr-oz-today [4]
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