Gluten Free Chattanooga

Back by Popular Demand: Tiffany Janes

On Saturday, June 12th at 10am, Tiffany will be our guest speaker and will be giving away freebies to the first 50 guests as well as door prizes full of goods that are not yet available in Chattanooga. The meeting will be held in the Erlanger Hospital POB Dining Room. Come in the main entrance (not the medical mall), take a left by the information desk towards the medical mall and a left around the clothing/scrub store.

Tiffany Janes works as a gluten-free consultant with restaurants (www.glutenfreepromotions.com) and is considered the most discriminating gluten-free diner around. She doesn't let the fact that she has celiac disease keep her from enjoying life. For her, that means plenty of great meals out and traveling as often as her budget allows.

Shopping Gluten Free In Our Local Grocery Stores
Where: Erlanger's Probasco Auditorium
When: Tuesday April 20, 2010
Time: 7 pm

We are excited to announce that Ms. Marilyn Batten, the Health and Wellness Specialist for Publix National, will be visiting us from Florida to talk about their products and hear your concerns and what else you would enjoy having! She will be followed by Ms. Abbie Shipley from Earthfare, who has been wonderful to our group and is excited to come toalk about their new programs and food choices! We hope to see every one there!

Earthfare Starts "Gluten FREEbies" program

Earthfare is excited to let you know about their newest campaign to support the celiac and gluten intolerant community here in Chattanooga! They are the pilot store for a new program called "Gluten FREEbies!" Each Thursday from 11am-8pm we will be serving up a host of gluten free items for customers to sample for free! Beginning this Thursday, April 1st, they will feature a prominent display of gluten free breakfast, lunch/dinner, snacks, desserts and drinks! Gracie Dillon, a celiac herself, has proposed and will be running this program to help the many customers who face the challenge of finding new and exciting foods that meet their dietary restrictions. We look forward to seeing you and your many friends who can benefit from this launch this Thursday! Here is the menu for this week that you can taste from 11-8:

Breakfast: SmartTreat's Chocolate Almond Granola with Homestead Milk
Lunch/Dinner: Earth Fare Tomato Basil Soup topped with Earth Fare Parmesan with Glutino Crackers
Snack: Earth Fare Ginger Snap Cookies with Arrowhead Mills Peanut Butter
Boulder Canyon Adzuki Bean Chips
Dessert Item: Earth Fare Wheat Free Chocolate Cake
Beer: Red Bridge (we will not be sampling this item but will feature it on our display)

Please feel free to pass this information on to others who you believe can benefit from trying Gluten-Free products. Hope to see you out at Earth Fare this Thursday! Also, Family Dinner Night is from 4-8 Thursday, which means up to 6 kids can eat a free Healthy Meal with the purchase of one adult meal of $5 or more.

Erlanger is now officially the 1st Hospital in the United States to be Gluten Free Certified

Congratulations to the Sodexho/Erlanger Hospital Team. They have been certified from the GIG Group for their inpatient meal service. Cynthia Kupper from GIG was very impressed with their policies, Gluten Free Food Assembly Zone, training and entire Gluten Free Program. This teams preparation and execution was incredible. Erlanger is now officially the 1st Hospital in the United States to be Gluten Free Certified by GIG for inpatient meal service. The University of Chicago at Illinois Medical Center was the 1st Retail Food Service Program certified. However, they are not inpatient certified. This certification will be most important as Erlanger Hospital will be able to create a safe haven for those patients with Gluten Diet Restrictions. Thank you to these amazing people as the number of lives they will impact is immense. Your hard work means the world to me and my family.

Kelly Brexler
Co-Founder of GF Chattanooga

"Diagnosed... Now what?"

Gluten Free Chattanooga is excited to launch our New Year with our first meeting on February 23, 2010 at 7 pm! We will be back at Memorial Health System in their Community Room. We are thrilled to have Dr. Patel and Ms. Susie Lynch speaking to us about what happens after the diagnosis, what kind of physician follow up we should have, what if we didn't test positive for Celiac yet still are gluten intolerant and all sorts of other hot topics!

The Physicians of Digestive Health Associates, PC specialize in diseases of the digestive system and the liver.

They have two locations for your convenience. The main office is located at Memorial Hospital Medical Building East and a satellite office is located at Hutcheson Medical Center in the Medical Professional Building.

Jon Paul Davis
Jon Paul began working with HHM as an intern in January 2008. He started as a full time staff accountant in January 2009. Jon Paul works primarily in the audit and tax departments. HHM will provide a short presentation concerning the new 2009 tax return filing updates for individuals. They will also present the correct way to account medical expense deductions. A short question and answer period will follow. George, Will and Jon Paul will be on hand after the meeting to go into more detail and answer any additional questions.

Vijay P. Patel, M.D.
Dr. Patel completed Medical School in Bombay, Indi in 1984. Upon completing his Residency Program in Internal Medicine, at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, located in Bronx, NY in 1988 he then was accepted into a Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of South Florida. Upon completion of his Fellowship he moved to Chattanooga and began Private practice in 1990 where he then received his Board Certification in Gastroenterology in 1991 by the American Board of Gastroenterology. Dr. Patel is licensed in both Tennessee and Georgia as a Medical Doctor. Dr. Patel, his wife, Alka, and their two children live in Chattanooga.

SusieLynch , FNP
Susie is a native of Pensacola, Florida, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Florida in 1991. As a registered nurse, she worked in intensive care, cardiac progressive care, surgical oncology, and home health. She earned a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1997. Since becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner, she has worked in the field of Asthma, Immunology and Allergy and Internal Medicine. Susie brought her vast medical experience to the Gastroenterology field and joined our practice in 2006. Susie lives in Chattanooga with her husband and two children.

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Celiac Support Groups
Area Holistic Calendar
Celiac Sprue Association

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