newsbriefs Gluten-Free Faire
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xplore gluten-free living if you or someone you love has celiac disease or sensitivity to the gluten in wheat, rye, barley and most oats. It is difficult to identify or diagnose the uncurable disease, and it can be managed successfully with treatment in only one known way: a 100% lifelong gluten-free diet. Even the tiny amount of gluten from sharing a toaster can compromise the immune system of someone with celiac disease, prevalent in 1 out of 100 Americans. About a tenth of Americans are gluten intolerant. The faire will feature gluten-free food samples and products from across the U.S. and Canada and local restaurants. Southern Arizona Celiac Support’s medical advisory board will answer questions and give free antibody blood screenings to approved fairgoers (see website for details). “For people with gluten sensitivity, a gluten-free diet is a great example of
Melissa Diane Smith, Author
how food is our best medicine. That’s empowering news,” says Melissa Diane Smith, internationally known holistic nutritionist/author based in Tucson who will be present at the book signing table. The faire will also include raffles, a silent auction, and games for kids.
Info: Gluten Free Food Faire. Saturday April 30, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. New location: Holiday Inn Palo Verde, 4550 S. Palo Verde Road. Free, open to the public. See
SouthernArizonaCeliacSupport.org or call 520-744-3862 or 520-971-9595 for more information.
Earth Day Cometh T
ucson will get down to Earth on April 16, when the Southern Arizona
Environmental Management Society hosts the city’s 17th annual Earth Day Festival. There will be plenty of hands-on activities for kids and information on environmental products, water conservation and quality, household hazardous waste, wildlife, nature preserves and more.
A 10 a.m. parade will include
environment-themed floats and participants in costume - plants, animals or any other eco-costumes their talents may conceive. Batucaxé, a high-energy drum and dance group, will lead the procession.
Middle school students will test design and construction skills in a solar electric model car and house competition. The Alternate Fuel Vehicle Show includes vehicles that run on biodiesel, compressed natural gas, electricity, ethanol, propane and waste vegetable oil. Free bicycle valet parking will be available.
Info: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (parade at 10 a.m.) at Reid Park, DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center. Enter from east side of Country Club Road just north of 22nd Street.
T H E R E A R E N O PASSENGERS ON SPACESHIP EARTH. WE ARE ALL CREW. ~MARSHALL MCLUHAN
www.
NaturalTucson.com
April 2011
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