Tag — Gluten Free Diet

The slender singer/actress Emmy Rossum who has starred in films such as Phantom of the Opera and Dragonball Evolution told Ok Magazine how she keeps fit and stays healthy.  When it comes to her diet her gluten-intolerance requires her to be extra careful.  She explains,

“I don’t eat wheat only because I’m gluten-intolerant, but otherwise I really try to stay away from things that are overly starchy or deep-fried. Otherwise, life is too short not to eat dessert, not to bread, not to eat rice and potatoes. I think if you exercise and are healthy, those kind of things – they’re not the devil.”

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the co-hosts on The View, was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in the year 2000.  For years she had the symptoms but didn’t even realize it.  But now that she has learned how to control the disease she has recently published a book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, to guide others who also live with the disease. The book includes how to read food labels, recipes and product reviews in order to eliminate gluten from the diet.  In the upcoming issue of Every Day with Rachel Ray,  Elisabeth shared some of her grandmother’s Italian recipes that also happen to be gluten free.

“My grandmother was giving me her meatball-and-sauce recipe.  When she got to the part about adding breadcrumbs, she looked up at me and said, ‘Elisabeth, you can add whatever you want here.’ I thought, if my Italian grandmother can understand being G-free, anyone can.”

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Jenny McCarthy has done it all, she was Playboy Playmate of the Year back in 1994, did some work on MTV and she’s even published a book on caring for children with autism.  Now, considered to be one of the more solid-minded women in Hollywood, Jenny McCarthy was interviewed by Shape Magazine and divulged on how she has come to be who she is today.  She said,

“In 2002, when my son, Evan, was born, I dialed back that whole sex-kitten thing. And then when I went public about his autism, I gained credibility as a passionate mom.”

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