Ep 102 Celiac News December Roundup

Let’s start the blog with the show notes for this Episode –

This week I have my monthly catch-up with Ellen Bayens of theceliacscene.com.  Here’s the list of articles we chatted about.

The first is an article Ellen wrote for the CCA with a straight shooting approach to the holidays and owning the diet.

How to Handle the Holidays

Next is a Facebook share that triggered a huge response and 100 ‘shares’ and counting.

11 Things People With Celiac Disease Do That Seem ‘High Maintenance,’ but Actually Aren’t

 We also looked at the following studies –

Study Suggests Gluten-Free Diet Does Not Help Autistic Children
Atopic Dermatitis and Celiac Disease – Are They Connected? I also mentioned about my plans for next week’s podcast episode to focus on the holiday recipes from my television baking show.  You can find those recipes on the show website at www.suesglutenfreebaking.com.

Sue’s Websites and Social Media –

Podcast https://acanadianceliacpodcast.libsyn.com

Podcast Blog – https://www.acanadianceliacblog.com

Facebook – @acanadianceliacpodcast

Twitter – CeliacPodcastCA

Email – acdnceliacpodcast@gmail.com

Baking Website – https://www.suesglutenfreebaking.com

Instagram – @suesgfbaking

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUVGfpD4eJwwSc_YjkGagza06yYe3ApzL

     (search Sues Gluten Free Baking)

Email – sue@suesglutenfreebaking.com

Other Podcast – Gluten Free Weigh In – https://glutenfreeweighin.libsyn.com

My Thoughts –

I often stay on a call after I finish recording an interview and this always happens when I record with Ellen.  We can talk endlessly about celiac disease, our involvement in the celiac community and the people we have met through that community.  While we were talking this past week, I couldn’t help but think about something I learned a couple of years ago while studying communications – “The Curse of Knowledge”.  I was compelled to ask Ellen if she was familiar with the term, as it is something I find often effects the content in our podcasts.

“The Curse of Knowledge” is loosely defined as the inability to put yourself in the situation of someone who does not know information that you find common, simple or primary to a subject.  In our case, it can be difficult to speak about celiac disease and the gluten free diet from the point of view of someone newly diagnosed, or someone who is finding their way with a variety of resources. 

As an example, in this week’s podcast we talked about wiping down a counter.  It may not occur to someone new to the diet that this is important.  Yes, it’s important to keep a clean kitchen, but why is it so important for us as a part of staying healthy on our diet.  It can be difficult to speak to an audience with a spectrum of knowledge.  Our topic, a medical condition and a complicated diet, fall under that spectrum.  Here’s to our continuing efforts to thwart “the curse”.