Testing for Genetic Celiac Risk

What’s your risk for celiac disease? Find out with Targeted Genomics

Our genes are fascinating. They determine not only simple things like our hair and eye color, but more complex things, like to which diseases we are susceptible. Genes are a huge part of the puzzle, but not the only part. Having a gene for a particular disease does not mean you have the disease. Science […]

Cozi App for meal planning and grocery shopping

Organize the holidays & life with Cozi

I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty busy year-round. Throw the holidays into the mix and I’m slammed! So it’s obvious I’d jump on board with anything that can keep me better organized. Enter the Cozi Family Organizer. Cozi is a free mobile app and website that helps families keep track of school schedules, […]

happy thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

From my family to yours, here is wishing you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving

Heart Cookies

When Food Affects Relationships

I’ll admit it. I’m a typical Type A perfectionist. And not in a mild, “you have certain tendencies” way. I am in full-on obsessive-compulsive territory no matter how you slice it. Obsessive, with a healthy dose of addictive personality disorder mixed in for good measure. If I were a soup, I would be too hot […]

Family on the Beach

Celiac Disease: It’s All In the Family

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of humans, are created, strengthened and maintained. – Winston Churchill I am doubly blessed when it comes to family life. I was raised in a pretty cool family with three older brothers and […]

Chuck E Cheese

Chuck E.Cheese’s

Where a gluten-free kid can be a kid In select stores in 2012, Chuck E. Cheese’s began test marketing Bake-in-Bag® personal-sized cheese pizza from Conte’s Pasta and individual chocolate cupcakes from Fabe’s All Natural Bakery. Both products are certified gluten-free. The test market was such a success that these gluten-free offerings were rolled out nationwide […]