KFA e-News Monthly Newsletter

December 2007



Hello Friends of Kids With Food Allergies,

As 2007 draws to a close, I want to thank you again for subscribing to our newsletter, becoming a Family Member, visiting our Web site, donating, participating in surveys, and letting us know your thoughts.

We have plans for improvements to our Web site, including more recipes, articles, news, and tools to help with day-to-day living with food allergies. Please stay tuned.

As we start the new year, we will be switching to a twice- monthly e-newsletter schedule. As we transition over to this new schedule, we're going to send two brief emails this month. In this first one, we want to thank the businesses that have supported us with donations, sponsorships or advertising during 2007. A list of their names and logos are below. Their financial support provides vital funding to our nonprofit organization.

The second e-newsletter, later this month, will be a special holiday message from one of our sponsors.

Best wishes for happy holidays and a healthy new year!

Sincerely,

Lynda Mitchell
President

Announcements


Now available! Chanukah and Christmas booklets

Two free booklets are available this month from KFA to help take the focus away from food during the holidays:

Great Christmas ideas for non-food related crafts and activities, safe dining strategies, and holiday recipes including allergy-free gingerbread cookies, candy canes, rice nog and an egg-free alternative to royal icing to use for making gingerbread houses.

Download free Christmas booklet


Eight pages of food free Chanukah games and activities to make and enjoy; crafts to make safe dreidels, menorahs and gelt; strategies for making meals safe; and allergen-free recipes for latkes and sufganyot.

Download free Chanukah booklet

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The winter issue of Support Net, our quarterly e-zine, is available now for all Family Members!



Family Members - click here to download now

In this issue:

Family Membership subscribers will receive the latest issue featuring articles on:

• Enjoying the holidays while dealing with the emotional challenges;
  
• How hearing the words, "a single dose, life-saving shot of epinephrine" changed one mom's life;
  
• Corrine, age 10, who not only takes good care of her own food allergies but helps care for her younger sibs' allergies, too.

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Make KFA a priority for your year-end giving

Donate to Kids With Food Allergies today. Your tax-deductible donations, small or large, make a huge difference!

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News

Safe holidays for allergic children.
News story about Kids With Food Allergies: "...the nonprofit along with its Web site offers a pantheon of egg-less, dairy-less, soy-less, peanut-free recipes, along with allergy information, research, advocacy, and perhaps most importantly, a community of parents who will understand."

Wheat? Peanut? Dairy? Don't let allergies ground your family.
"How do you travel with food allergies? Some quick tips in the current issue of Travel + Leisure Family Magazine.


Clinical Characteristics of Peanut-Allergic Children: Recent Changes
Todd D. Green, Virginia S. LaBelle, Pamela H. Steele, Edwin H. Kim, Laurie A. Lee, Vaishali S. Mankad, Larry W. Williams, Kevin J. Anstrom and A. Wesley Burks
Pediatrics.2007; 120: 1304-1310. Journal Abstract
Congratulations to Dr. Todd Green, KFA Medical Advisory Team member, on being lead author for this published study in the December issue of Pediatrics.


In the Spotlight: Dr. Robert Wood
A video interview with world-renowned expert in the treatment of peanut allergy, Dr. Wood, who is also the author of the book, "Food Allergies For Dummies."


Extreme Makeovers: Home Edition
If you missed Sunday's show featuring a family with four children that have eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders, you can watch online now. Just click on the link above, and select "Stockdale family."

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Kids With Food Allergies wishes to express its sincere appreciation for the support of the following businesses during 2007:

Gold Level Sponsors

New!

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Silver Level Sponsors

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Bronze Level Sponsors

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In-kind Donors






Healthy Child Publishing Group
Publisher of "Ask Before I Eat, a Child's Guide to Food Allergies".


Plumtree Press
Publisher of "What's to Eat: The Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook" and "How to Manage Your Child's Life-Threatening Food Allergies."

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Discounts

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Advertisers

New! Peanut Free Planet
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New! Cookies...for me?
Our cookies are delicious!!! We specialize in oversized gourmet cookies that are gluten free, egg free and nut free. Now selling at fine stores in Bucks County, PA and shipping fresh orders nationwide. You won't believe these cookies are for you....they're scrumptious!
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Allergy Mama
Designer of practical and stylish bags for anyone who needs to keep medications and other important items in an easily accessible and recognizable place.



Arbonne natural personal care for the entire family
Arbonne Consultant and KFA mom Linda Altieri.



CoolMedID
Seller of peanut Allergy wristbands

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