Gluten-Free Wikaduke will host Lara
Rondinelli-Hamilton, Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, who
will discuss "Healthy
Eating Basics for Celiac Disease"
at its June 6 meeting. Lara has a special interest in counseling people with
Celiac Disease because she was biopsy diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2007.
Lara has experience counseling
people with diabetes, high-cholesterol, high blood pressure, as well as for
weight loss and general wellness. She is the co-author of the best-selling
Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking and The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook
(American Diabetes Association, 2004 & 2008). She is a regular
columnist for the diabetes website www.dLife.com and has been a speaker to numerous
organizations and groups for healthy eating, cooking and meal planning. Lara
works at DuPage Medical Group in Naperville.
Gluten-Free Wikaduke, a Celiac
Disease support group, meets in the lower level conference room at Edward
Plainfield Emergency Room from 10AM to 12PM the first Saturday of most months. Gluten-Free
Wikaduke does not meet in July or January. For more information, email glutenfreewikaduke@gmail.com.