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March 2019 Volume 1 Issue 152 $5.00 /Issue Canadian Celiac Association L’Association canadienne de la maladie coeliaque March 2019 ~ Vancouver Celiac News 1 2018 Board of Directors President & Membership CONTENTS: Lizbeth Wall Email: [email protected] Vice President Page: Luisa Cecconello Email: [email protected] Treasurer 3 President’s Message Betty Wong Email: [email protected] 5 Nutrition Corner Secretary & Marketing 6 Celiac In the News Cynthia Loveman Email: [email protected] Director 7 Gluten Free Travel Jessica Mooney Email: [email protected] 11 Celiac In the Kitchen Director Pushpa Kapadia Email: [email protected] 32 Schedule of Events Director Jasmine Sidhu Email: [email protected] Director NEXT ISSUE: Val Vaartnou Email: [email protected] If you have any recipes, restaurant reviews/articles for the June 2019 issue, please have them Thanks to our Facebook moderators Lynda Neilson and Sarah Makepeace. submitted by May 15, 2019. 2019 Board Members will be elected February 10, 2019 at Annual General Meeting. 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In this issue you will find that we have been a busy and active Chapter and in between all our Chapter’s actions and events over the past several months I have had time to fit in an- other travel adventure. On February 10th we held our AGM, wrapping up 2018 in a snowstorm, at least from a Van- couverites’ point of view. We appreciate all our members who support us and to those who were able to attend, braving the pending weather conditions, thank you, we easily made our quorum. We had a table full of goodies to give away thanks to our very generous sponsors, Cloud 9, Dr. Schar and New Age Marketing. You will find the details of our meeting in this issue. We have also started Kid’s Meet Up Group, led by Board Director Jasmine, enthusiastically supported by rest of the Board members. I am sure that there are many of you happy that all of Jasmine’s hard work has come to fruition. You can read about the details of this group in this issue as well. I have only been diagnosed with Celiac Disease since 2013, and except for the very rare tummy upset, I have always considered my self asymptomatic. I have listened sympathetically to those that suffer with merely a crumb and have always considered my self fortunate that I do not experience such extreme ill effects when glutened. We are often asked “what are the symptoms of having Celiac Disease,” our reply is that there are over 300 symptoms, but until re- cently I never really understood just how accurate that statement is. I had my “ah ha” moment when I got glutened while visiting Memphis. That evening my personality changed, I was not rational, I could not think, I was very depressed, and I felt like I had a hangover (without the benefits of a good bottle of wine). I had not realized what happened to me until the next day when I was feeling my normal happy self. There was no other explanation for my sad state. When I reflected upon past incidents, I realized that these are my symptoms when I get poisoned. I have witnessed friends who immediately vomit and one friend whose lips go numb and she can- not talk properly. Every one of us is different which makes it difficult for family and friends to understand that we have a serious disease. “Cancer” scares the heck out of all of us but our disease is not recognized as being life threatening or altering and yet it is both. The good news is that more and more people are beginning to realize that we do not choose to be Gluten Free and we are being treated more respectfully when we state that we must adhere to our medically restricted diet. I wish you all the very best! Liz March 2019 ~ Vancouver Celiac News 3 March 2019 ~ Vancouver Celiac News 4 Ask Jess: Nutrition Corner Jess Pirnak is a Registered Dietician who 2. Avocados kindly volunteers her time to write news- letter articles for us and answers ques- And not just because avocado toast is super trendy right tions from our members. Jess can be now! Avocados are packed with soluble fibre and B reached at [email protected] if you have any questions. vitamins including folate. A deficiency in folate is not She can be contacted for consultation at: uncommon in celiac disease due to malabsorption and may https://www.foodyourself.com/contact-1/ contribute to gut symptoms and fatigue. Plus, gluten-free convenience foods tend to lack fibre (think rice cakes or Q. What are the top three foods to rice crackers), so it is important to consume high fibre and consume to maximize my intake of folate foods. the critical nutrients needed for someone newly diagnosed with celiac disease? 3. And last but not least…cold water oily fish Think salmon or mackerel. These fish, along with herring 1. Kale…or any dark leafy green vegetable and sardines, are high in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty Kale is probably the most famous of the dark leafy greens acids and a great source of protein and vitamin D. Bonus: because its packed with nutrition - extremely high in mackerel is also one of the least expensive fish on the vitamins A and K, it also provides a dose of vitamin C, market, so no need to break the bank in order to eat at calcium, and a small amount of omega 3 fatty acids. Kale’s least two servings of fish per week. Omega-3 fatty acids anti-inflammatory properties, along with the fact that it is a and vitamin D are actually critical nutrients for everyone not source of calcium, makes this dark leafy green one of my just for someone with celiac disease. top three foods for someone newly diagnosed with celiac disease. March 2019 ~ Vancouver Celiac News 5 Celiac Disease in the News Submitted by Val Vaartnou and Ibreez Asaria First, Alaedini, contacted researchers at the University of The following are summaries of research in progress or Bologna in Italy and he studied 80 patients who had been completed from credible medical journals and medical identified as gluten sensitive based on a gluten challenge. sites. Links are provided where further information can be He wished to study the immune response but did not ex- found. pect to see one. He found that these individuals had high levels of a class of antibodies against gluten that was short Do Celiacs Suffer from Headaches More? lived. “For Alaedini, the beginnings of a mechanism emerged: Some still-unidentified wheat component prompts A UK study looked at scientific articles from 1987 to 2017 the intestinal lining to become more permeable. (An imbal- found that the prevalence of headaches in adults with celi- ance in gut microbes might be a predisposing factor.) Com- ac disease was 26 percent and in children with celiac dis- ponents of bacteria then seem to sneak past immune cells ease, 18 percent. More than 42,000 patients with either in the underlying intestinal tissue and make their way to the celiac disease or headaches with an unknown cause were bloodstream and liver, prompting inflammation.” followed in the studies.