Category: Awareness Campaigns
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Dr. Joseph Murray on Celiac Disease
The Mayo Clinic recently released the findings from a new study on Celiac Disease, illustrating a quadruple increase in Celiac Disease since the 1950s. You can read more about the study at the Mayo Clinic website. Dr. Joseph Murray released a little video explaining the results. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwKQ7W9qlM] As an aside, I love listening to this…
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Leadership Day – GIG Conference 2009
Update: Check the bottom of this post for an update on the chicken nuggets. One of my favorite things about the GIG Conference is the leadership day, the day before the conference officially begins. If you are a leader of a GIG branch and have never come, you should really consider coming to next year’s…
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TAGS – 2009 GIG Conference
Brand new this year and really exciting is the TAGS program – Teen Advocates for Gluten Sensitivities. Oftentimes, after a child has outgrown the ROCK program or their local support group’s kids program, the teenager no longer wants to attend meetings. The problem that this generally poses is that they often don’t learn to speak…
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Cookbook Giveaway
We had a wonderful time at our Moving Feet Without Wheat awareness walk in Arlington, Texas, last Saturday.  Even though we had been delayed because of raging thunderstorms in the morning, we still had a great turnout. And there was so much food. The kids had a blast playing in the bounce house, getting their…
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New Time – Moving Feet Without Wheat
We are having some pretty big thunderstorms around the metroplex this morning, so we have postponed our Moving Feet Without Wheat Awareness Walk until 4:00 pm today. If you are able, please come. We will still be having a picnic dinner with tons of food! You can find more information at www.northtexasgig.com.