Gluten Free Raleigh: Gluten Free Asheville & Wilmington Blogs Update

Fundraising History

As of Dec 3, 2010
1) Jules Shepard Gluten Free Cooking Class - 2/28/2009 $100 donated to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research $400 donated to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)

2) Gluten Free Raleigh Run/Walk Fundraiser - 6/13/2009 $915 donated to Gluten Free Week 2009 @ Camp Kanata (GIG sponsored camp in Wake Forest)

3) Jules Shepard Gluten Free Cooking Class - 7/12/2009 $300 donated to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research

4) GF 101 Class @ Rosie's Plate - 10/3/2009 $175 donated to Gluten Free Week 2010 @ Camp Kanata (GIG sponsored camp in Wake Forest)

5) GF 101 Class @ Rosie's Plate - 1/23/2010 $100 donated to Gluten Free Week 2010 @ Camp Kanata (GIG sponsored camp in Wake Forest)

6) GF 101 Class @ Rosie's Plate - 4/24/2010 $85 donated to Gluten Free Week 2010 @ Camp Kanata (GIG sponsored camp in Wake Forest)

7) Gluten Free Food Drive to benefit The Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC - May 2010 $925

8) GF 101 Class @ Whole Foods - 10/23/2010 $82.50 donated to Gluten Free Week 2011 @ Camp Kanata (GIG sponsored camp in Wake Forest)

Grand Total = $3,082.50

Celiac Disease Stats

16,860 Triangle residents with Celiac Disease
1 out of every 133 Americans (about 3 million people or 1% of population) has Celiac Disease.
97% of Americans estimated to have CD are not diagnosed.
CD has over 300 known symptoms although some people experience none.
Age of diagnosis is key: If you are diagnosed between age 2-4, your chance of getting an additional autoimmune disorder is 10.5%. Over the age of 20, that rockets up to 34%.
30% of the US population is estimated to have the genes necessary for CD.
2.5 babies are born every minute in the USA with the genetic makeup to have CD.
There are 15 states in the US with populations less than the total number of Celiacs in the US.
CD affects more people in the US than Crohn’s Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease combined.
500,000 new Celiac diagnoses are expected to occur in the US by 2012 -- thanks to efforts to raise public awareness of the disease.
People with CD dine out 80% less than they used to before diagnosis and believe less than 10% of eating establishments have a 'very good' or 'good' understanding of GF diets.
It takes an average of 11 years for patients to be properly diagnosed with CD even though a simple blood test exists.
The average cost of misdiagnosis is $5,000 - $12,000 per person per year. Improving the time to diagnosis could save the health care system millions of dollars annually in unnecessary medical care.
A recent study by Packaged Facts projects that the sales of GF food will reach $2.63 Billion by 2012. The GF market is also projected to hit $5 Billion by 2015.
GF foods are, on average, 242% more expensive then their non-GF counterparts.
The smallest amount of gluten which has been shown by a biopsy to cause damage to a Celiac is 0.1 gram per day - or 1/48th of a slice of bread.
The Food Allergen Labeling & Consumer Protection Act became law in 2006 allowing for easier reading of food labels for those with CD but the law only requires labeling of wheat. Nearly 5 years later, the FDA still has not finalized what it means to label a product Gluten Free.
12% of people in the US who have Down Syndrome also have CD.
8% of people in the US who have Type 1 Diabetes also have CD.
Among people who have a first-degree relative diagnosed with Celiac, as many as 1 in 22 people may have the disease. First degree relatives should be tested yearly for CD even if previous tests were negative.
There are currently 0 drugs available to treat CD.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Gluten Free Asheville & Wilmington Blogs Update

As I'm sure you've discovered already, I've been attempting to grow the Gluten Free Raleigh concept throughout the entire state of North Carolina. I've created a site called Gluten Free North Carolina as well as blogs for several major cities around the state. Those cities include Rocky Mount, NC, Greenville, NC, High Point, NC, Fayetteville, NC, Winston-Salem, NC, Asheville, NC , Greensboro, NC, Charlotte, NC and Wilmington, NC.

I've been working over the last few months to find folks in each of the above cities so they can add content to those blogs much like what is already going on in Raleigh, Cary/Apex, Durham and Chapel Hill. I announced last week about the addition of a new blogger for Charlotte. I'm now happy to report a new blogger who will be adding content for both the Wilmington and Asheville blogs. So how can one person add content for two cities which are about 400 miles apart?

Please allow me to welcome Kristen Campbell who will begin adding content to both the Gluten Free Wilmington and Gluten Free Asheville blog very soon. Kristen is moving from San Francisco, CA to Asheville this summer (June). It also happens that she loves Wilmington and visits that city often. The beach and the mountains - a great thing about the state of NC.

For those of you who may find Kristen's name familiar, it's because she is the founder of two great Gluten Free resources already in full swing - Gluten Free Fox and Naturally Dah'ling. Gluten Free Fox (I've previously written about it here) is a search engine customized to feature and return only items pertinent to Gluten Free. It is built upon Google technology and helps filter out unwanted search results from your GF searches - an awesome idea that I use all the time. Naturally Dah'ling is a Web site which gathers the best in Gluten Free cosmetics and personal care products from Kristen's experiences. All of the products listed on the site are free of the 10 top toxic ingredients as shown here. The products are all verified GF and personally tested by Kristen before being listed on the site.

The addition of Kristen to Asheville and Wilmington is an awesome score for Gluten Free North Carolina - welcome aboard!

1 comments:

leah mcgrath said...: We have a "Gluten-Free Asheville and WNC" group on Facebook!; June 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM

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