This week I found myself explaining to my 15-year-old what life was like before the Food Allergen Labelling and Protection Act of 2004 law took effect in 2006. The explanation was precipitated by teenager finding, then eating my husband’s Kashi Indigo Morning Cereal. I know, you inhaled, right? Exhale. She ate it after I called the […]
I finally had a chance to read the entire article in the New York Times Magazine Section of March 10, 2013, entitled The Allergy Buster written By MELANIE THERNSTROM and I immediately recognized Dr. Nadeau’s picture. In mid-December, 2012 I had received a press release on Doctor Kari Nadeau from a marketing manager at Consulting MD. Consulting MD is an […]
This recipe grew out of my recent meeting of Jenny Sprague, whose blog is Multiple Food Allergy Help . Her food allergic child, who also has cancer, is on a low-foods diet as they try to figure out what foods he can eat. She explained this to me over dinner (dinner at The Strand courtesy […]
Reblogged from Eatocracy: Breakfast might not just be the most important meal of a child’s day — it might be one of most important meals of their life. A new study released Wednesday by non-profit group Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign shows the positive effect that school breakfast can have on a child’s […]
Reblogged from Food Therapy: A study presented during the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology on February 22-26 found that children with food allergies had lower weight and body mass index percentiles than children without allergies. This slower growth may be the result of removing of foods from their diets. Researchers from the University of North […]
Fifteen years ago, our lovely child was born. It was a wonderful time in our lives and we were a happy couple who had finally had our little ‘peanut’ as we nick-named her. At about three months of age, her sensitive skin would mysteriously break open and bleed. Shortly thereafter she was diagnosed with eczema […]
Let’s face it, it’s Friday and add to that National Margarita Day and we almost have a party. Apparently everyone knows that I love Margaritas because as soon as California woke up this morning, my mailbox and text messages were buzzing with a fervor not seen since, well, you get the idea. Sloane Miller was […]
And the list goes on right? Those of us who are married are all those things and more. When our child was younger, people used to marvel at “what a good mother” I was. I would unabashedly, and a little self-deprecatingly, agree (who else gets up at 5am to cook a days worth of meals […]
I have served as board chair of Kids With Food Allergies Foundation for the past year and a half, and it is with great pleasure that I’m finally able to blog about the news of the merger (press release here) of Kids With Food Allergies (KFA), and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA). For those of us […]
