Education, Health and Awareness

Get clear, trustworthy guidance on gluten-free living — from label reading, safe ingredients, allergens, and medications to school lunch tips, summer camps, travel advice, and understanding products like oat milk, alcohol, and household items.

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Shopping for Safe Gluten Free Products – How to Read Food Labels

Shopping for safe gluten free products should have gotten easier after the FDA’s gluten free food labeling rule became final in 2014. As a celiac, I believe it has actually ...

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Gluten Free Medications – Separating Truth from Fiction

Gluten is indeed hidden in lots of places, but you can't believe everything you read or hear. Myths persist and in order to be safe AND sane, it's worth the time it takes to find out the FACTS.

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Gluten-Free at Work & On the Go

How do you live gluten free when you are away from the comfort of your gluten free kitchen? Specifically, while at work? Are your colleagues cool about your dietary restrictions ...

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Shopping for Safe Gluten Free Products – How to Read Food Labels

Shopping for safe gluten free products should have gotten easier after the FDA’s gluten free food labeling rule became final in 2014. As a celiac, I believe it has actually ...

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Gluten Free Medications – Separating Truth from Fiction

Gluten is indeed hidden in lots of places, but you can't believe everything you read or hear. Myths persist and in order to be safe AND sane, it's worth the time it takes to find out the FACTS.

Read more
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Gluten-Free at Work & On the Go

How do you live gluten free when you are away from the comfort of your gluten free kitchen? Specifically, while at work? Are your colleagues cool about your dietary restrictions ...

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Milk Protein Allergy? Lactose Intolerance? Casein-Free? Making Sense of Milk

Explanations for why dairy can cause health problems for some people, along with some delicious dietary solutions!

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Are your household cleaners gluten free? Does it matter?

Do we need to worry about gluten in our household cleaners? Quite possibly ...

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How Ceramic Knives Made Me a Better Cook

If you’ve followed me for awhile, you know I love to bake. I’m actually considered an expert at gluten free baking (it took me long enough, experimenting for years to ...

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Calcium & Vitamin D Deficiency & World Osteoporosis Day

Did you know that October 20 is World Osteoporosis Day? Did you know that poor vitamin & mineral absorption from conditions like celiac disease can lead to osteoporosis and lots ...

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Celiac Awareness Day … Every Day

With Celiac Awareness Day nearly upon us, it seemed like a good time to reflect upon all the reasons why each of us should be spreading awareness about celiac disease. Information and a list of potential symptoms of celiac disease.

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Make Every Day Celiac Awareness Day

Particularly in 2011- the year the FDA finally moved forward to establish regulations setting standards for gluten-free food labeling - we should all take time to educate friends, family, restaurants, retailers, doctors, teachers ... about celiac disease and the importance of truly gluten-free foods for those of us who live...

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Cooking Gluten-Free … During a Power Outage!

Of course living gluten-free is more challenging than living without any food restrictions whatsoever, but I had to adopt a new level of cooking creativity for the multiple days we were without power.

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How We Built the World’s Tallest Gluten-Free Cake … and Why.

Fresh off the baking and building extravaganza that was 1in133.org, I thought it would be wise to take a few minutes to reflect upon at least some of what went into this event and what has already come out of it. Many of you already know about our 1in133 mission...

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3 Days of Expo in 6 Posts – A rundown of the latest & greatest in gluten-free & what does it mean to be “gluten-free?”

Fresh off my trip to Natural Products Expo West 2011, this begins my 6-part installment on my favorite new gluten-free products you can expect to see on the shelves this year!

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