Elisabeth Hasselbeck Draws Fire For Gluten Free - G-Free DIet Book
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is facing a bit of controversy for her recent book The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide.
Hasselbeck is best known for her role on The View. She has also been a contestant on reality TV shows. It's safe to say her credentials are not necessarily based in a medical background. But it's not like that has ever stopped a celebrity from writing a self-help book before.
Elaine Monarch, Executive Director of the Celiac Foundation, issued a comment about the book.
"I am writing to call your attention to the current publicity surrounding the new book, The G-free Diet, A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, by Elisabeth Hassselbeck, co-host of The View. While it is important to call attention to celiac disease, the information must be accurate - the inaccuracies in this book are potentially dangerous and detrimental to celiacs and to those yet to be diagnosed if people self diagnose and start eating GF. Our mission is to assist in getting people accurately diagnosed and the message in this book could defeat this mission. It appears that this book is being marketed as a fitness diet - eat g-free and feel so much better. Celiac is incorrectly referred to as an allergy not an autoimmune disease."
Of course Elisabeth Hasselbeck isn't diagnosing any diseases with her book. Instead she offers a personal account of her struggle with gluten intolerance and what changes she undertook to her diet. Since Celiac disease is currently said to be under-diagnosed it is understandable why accurate information is so important to helping people get treated.
Whether this book does that is open to debate. But many reviewers have stated there is a lot of good information in the book and that Hasselbeck has inspired them to make changes in their diet.
For more information, or to order: G-Free Diet.
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