Celiac Disease Resources
Celiac Disease (CD) is a
lifelong, digestive disorder affecting children
and adults. When people with
CD eat foods that
contain gluten, it creates an immune-mediated toxic reaction that
causes damage to
the small intestine and does not allow food to be properly absorbed.
Even small amounts of gluten in foods can affect those with CD and
cause health problems. Damage can occur to the small bowel even when
there are no symptoms present.
Gluten is the common name for the proteins in specific grains that are
harmful to persons with celiac disease. These proteins are found in ALL
forms of wheat (including durum, semolina, spelt, kamut, einkorn and
faro) and related grains rye, barley and triticale and MUST be
eliminated.
Cause of Celiac Disease
The cause of Celiac Disease, also known as gluten sensitive
enteropathy (GSE), is still a mystery. One out of 133 people
in the United States is affected with celiac disease. CD occurs
in 5-15% of the offspring and siblings of a person with celiac
disease. In 70% of identical twin pairs, both twins have the
disease. It is strongly suggested that family members of a
diagnosed celiac be tested, even if asymptomatic. Family
members who have an autoimmune disease are at a 25%
increased risk of having celiac disease. Celiac Disease is
not a food allergy - it is an autoimmune disease. Food
allergies, including wheat allergy, are conditions that people
can grow out of. This is not the case with Celiac Disease.
Treatment of Celiac Disease
Because CD/DH is a chronic disorder, the only treatment is the
lifelong adherence to the gluten-free diet. When gluten is removed
from the diet, the small intestine will start to heal and overall
health improves. Medication is not normally required. Consult your
physician regarding specific nutritional supplements to correct any
deficiencies. The diagnosed celiac should have medical follow-up to
monitor the clinical response to the gluten-free diet.
Dietary compliance increases the quality of life and decreases the
likelihood of osteoporosis, intestinal lymphoma and other associated
illnesses.
Because osteoporosis is common and may be profound in patients
with newly diagnosed CD, bone density should be measured at or shortly
after diagnosis.
Adapting to the gluten-free diet requires some lifestyle changes. It
is essential to read labels and learn how to identify foods that are
appropriate for the gluten-free diet and do not contain toxin gluten.
Potential harmful ingredients include:
* unidentified starch
* modified food starch
* binders
* fillers
* excipients
* extenders
* malt
Celiac Disease Foundation
FDA
Food and Drug Administration
Gluten-Free Labeling Proposed Rule
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California
Heart Center
The
Survival of Consciousness Research Exploration
This
initiative is inspired by Dr. Mack’s interest in the survival of
consciousness
and based on anomolous experiences since his passing. It is being
carried on
by Maria Talcott, with Laurie Campbell as primary research medium. Joe
DuBois, DonWatson, MD and Dr. Berney Williams act as our research
advisors.
Based on two months of blind data gathered after Dr. John Mack’s
passing,
and supported by cross correspondence that was documented immediately
after Dr. Mack’s passing; we hypothesize that Dr. Mack and colleagues
on
the otherside, like the late Montague Keen, a prominent British
parapsychologist
and Dr. Elisabeth Targ are making contact. We have created a platform
to allow
this team of discarnates the ability for regular contact.
Dr. Mack was most interested in how extraordinary experiences transform
human consciousness; and how an individual integrates these anomalies
in
their lives in order to have a more happy and complete existence as a
human being.
Our model uses mediums to communicate with the deceased (referred to as
“discarnates” or “spirits”). The information received during a
“reading” is taped, transcribed and evaluated.
The protocol for these readings requires a medium working alongside a
person
(a “sitter”) who was emotionally close to the discarnate. For our
specific project, Laurie Campbell, will be the primary medium. She will
work with Maria Talcott
a founding member of the John E. Mack Institute, serving as sitter, to
contact discarnate scientists.
After Ms. Campbell obtains exploratory information, a separate set of
mediums
will be used for “confirmatory readings”. These confirmatory readings
are designed
to gather data that will corroborate Ms. Campbell’s information.
These other mediums have no access to information obtained by Laurie,
or contact with Laurie
regarding these readings.
Information received will not only be used to help determine the
validity of this
area of consciousness research, but direction, wisdom and guidance will
be
sought from the eminent discarnates to assist us with advancing this
research.
This exploratory research phase is being conducted over the phone with
Laurie Campbell in Irvine CA, and Maria Talcott in Prescott,
Arizona.
All readings will
be taped recorded, transcribed, and assessed for guidance and direction
for what
our future work will be with this research initiative.
About the researchers
Laurie Campbell is the former Director of the research mediums at the
University of Arizona, and has been the subject of numerous research
experiments at Universities. She has been featured on HBO Life
Afterlife
with John Edward, George Anderson and Suzane Northrup, A & E
Documentary Beyond Death, Discovery Channel Canada and CBS
Women to Women. She has a new show on the Discovery channel
called, Sensing Murder which will air this fall.
Maria
Talcott is project coordinator of the survival of consciousness
exploration.
Ms. Talcott first met John Mack in 1994 during her participation in a
study of
people who had experienced anomalies. This contact with Dr. Mack later
led
to her position as Operations Manager for PEER (Dr Mack’s Program for
Extraordinary Experience Research) in the Spring of 1998. At PEER she
participated in the design of conferences and served as publicity and
media
director for Dr Mack when his book Passport to the Cosmos was released
in
1999. She is one of the core group members who initiated the
founding of the
John E. Mack Institute with John Mack. Her background is in business
management, real estate and the environmental field; she has a business
degree from Lesley College.
About the project advisors
Joe DuBois is a trained aerospace engineer, and research director of
this initiative.
He is skilled at developing scientific protocol and has developed a
number of programs using scientific methodology. He is also
married to Allison DuBois, the
real life inspiration of NBC’s hit show MEDIUM,and author of the New
York Times best-selling books, Don’tKiss The Good-bye and We are Their
Heaven. Joe is assistingour team at incorporating creative and
alternative measuresof protocol from his years of observation of the
many aspects of genuine mediumship.
Don
Watson, MD
www.enformy.com
Dr.
Berney Williams is a colleague and collaborator with DonWatson in
various explorations of consciousness. In his role as a Professor with
the
Holos University Graduate Seminary, he has served as an advisor for
more
than forty doctoral research projects on Spiritual Healing and Energy
Medicine. Trained as an historian of science, Berney's special interest
is cross-cultural and
cross-species communication. For example, one of the Holos doctoral
research
projects is a study of distant healing with a population of traumatized
tropical
birds, which achieved striking results. Dr. Williams is also
President of The
Center for Environmental Energy Medicine/Studies (CEEMS). CEEMS
is now
the corporate sponsor of The Council Grove Conference, one of the
longest continuously running annual conferences on consciousness
and healing research.
The Council Grove Conference will convene its 40th anniversary meeting
in the
Spring of 2008.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF DR. JOHN E. MACK
“There is perhaps no more
important question to human beings than whether consciousness survives
bodily death. Above all, we want to know if our individual
lives continue in some form, and whether we may ever again be in
contact with
those we have loved.” Dr. Mack wrote these words only weeks before his
own passing on September 27, 2004.
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