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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I need your help. I have had diarrhea for three months. I have tried Pepto-Bismol and Kaopectate. Neither worked. I have to use the bathroom 10 or more times a day, and I have become a prisoner of my home. How can I stop this? - L.C. ANSWER: Diarrhea lasting longer than four weeks is chronic diarrhea and has a list of possible causes numbering more than 30. Less-prolonged diarrhea is most often caused by infectious agents - bacteria or viruses. Chronic diarrhea is caused by...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Faith Weiner of Stop & Shop, +1-617-770-6025, fweiner@stopandshop.com QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Stop & Shop Supermarket supports National Food Safety Education Month(R) this September. This annual food safety campaign strives to build awareness of the restaurant and foodservice industry's commitment to serving safe food, heighten awareness about the importance of food safety education, and encourage additional food safety training for all industry...
At the invitation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Scott Mandell, CEO, President and Co-Founder of Enjoy Life Foods, the country's leading manufacturer of allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods, provided comments at a public meeting on the use of advisory labeling of allergens in foods. Mandell cautioned that current labeling regulations are not sufficient to adequately protect food-allergic, Celiac and other special diet consumers. Speaking on behalf of the American Celiac...
By Anonymous New Products * New Technology * New Services Aid in diagnosis QUANTA Lite Celiac IgA Profile is a fluorescent immunoassay for the semiquantitative detection of IgA antihuman tissue transglutaminase (h-tTG) and antideamidated gliadin peptide (DGP) antibodies, the detection of an insufficient amount of IgA, in human serum. The presence of these antibodies in conjunction with other findings aids in the diagnosis of the gluten-sensitive enteropathy celiac disease. INOVA...
By Maher, Kevin J Between 9,000 and 4,000 BC, in the age when glaciers melted and the earth warmed, nomadic hunter-gatherers settled down to more agrarian pursuits and began to cultivate wheat as a source of food. The establishment of this behavior, as it spread from Southeast Asia throughout Europe, is considered to have contributed greatly to mankind's success. The adoption of these new foods, however, was difficult for some. For these individuals and their descendants, a genetic...
By Smith, Melissa Diane Here's how to get an "A" in giving your kids the foods they need for a healthy start to the school year It's back-to-School time again-time to make the grade by providing safe, enjoyable lunches and after-school snacks for your kids. It's a tall order to make food that your kids will not only actually like, but also is nutritious enough to maximize their learning potential. It can be even more of a challenge to make food that's completely gluten- free. Here's a little...
At the invitation of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Scott Mandell, CEO, President and Co-Founder of Enjoy Life Foods, the country's leading manufacturer of allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods, provided comments on the National School Lunch Program saying that children with special dietary needs due to Celiac Disease, food allergies and other health concerns are not accommodated under the current program. Today's meeting, held by the Food and Nutrition Service of...
By Smith, Melissa Diane resource guide Are you trying to learn the basics of how and why to eat gluten free? Look no further. Here are simple answers to commonly asked questions Q & A 1. How can I get tested for celiac diseases? Ask to have a blood test done that measures blood levels of gluten-related antibodies (IgA and IgC antigliadin, antitissue transglutaminase, and possibly antiendomysial antibodies). If those indicators come back positive, a doctor typically recommends an...
By Stories by Rebecca Coudret n Courier & Press staff writer n 464- 7509 or coudretr@courierpress.com Judy Gries was diagnosed with celiac disease about eight years ago. "I found out my symptoms, which I'd been having for a while, were pretty common. I couldn't eat anything, so my body wasn't holding in nutrients. I was exhausted, just couldn't function," she said. "Fatigue. Anemia. I couldn't keep anything in, not even water." It "honestly was a relief" to know there was a name for her...
For the second consecutive year, Enjoy Life Foods, which makes great-tasting allergy-friendly and gluten-free foods, has been named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held businesses in the U.S.(1) The 2008 list is the 27th that Inc. magazine has published that in the past has included such companies as Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Under Armour, and Jamba Juice. Schiller Park, IL-based Enjoy Life Foods is ranked No. 371, with three-year revenue growth of 805%. It was one of...
