Post by kickingfrog on Feb 5, 2011 10:31:41 GMT
Katharine (Duchess of ) Kent has coeliac disease.
Electronic Telegraph
ISSUE 1466 Monday 31 May 1999
Please call me Katharine
Interview by Helena de Bertodano
The Duchess of Kent is very unlike the media image that exists of a fragile, almost ethereal creature, floating through life and smiling sweetly at Wimbledon as she presents the trophies. In person she is much more abrasive and steely, with a sharp sense of humour....
"I'm a very happy person and I'm as strong as an ox . . . I don't have any problems with my health, except that I'm a coeliac, which means I have an allergy to wheat, barley, oats and rye."
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From:
The Duchess of Kent by Mary Riddell, page 362
ISBN 0 283 06329 7
..in an interview with the Daily Telegraph....Katherine explained that doctors had now isolated what was wrong with her. She had, she said, been diagnosed earlier in the year as ‘possibly’ having coeliac disease- an illness that interferes with the absorption of food- and put on a gluten-free diet. ‘It means that I may not have been absorbing food properly for fifteen to twenty years....
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3503318.stm
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1039625.ece
*******************
Sir Richard Doll (died 2005) was a coeliac and Patron of Coeliac UK
***************************************
The late Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Warlock, was a coeliac.
www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=33
***************************************************
Dr. Chris Steele has coeliac disease
This article was published on Tue 19 January 2010
…Dr. Chris Steele has been diagnosed with coeliac disease. He revealed his condition yesterday on ITV’s This Morning show, where he is the resident doctor.
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by intolerance to gluten. Damage is caused to the gut lining when gluten is eaten. There is no cure or drugs for the condition and the only treatment is life-long adherence to a strict gluten-free diet.
Without a gluten-free diet, the disease can lead to other serious conditions, such as malnutrition, osteoporosis, infertility, multiple miscarriages and can cause bowel cancer.
Somewhat ironically, Dr. Chris has been an ambassador of Coeliac UK, the national charity for people with coeliac disease, for the past three years.
Over the past few months Dr. Chris had been suffering with abdominal symptoms and his own GP referred him to a gastroenterologist.
Following blood tests and then a biopsy the results came back to confirm he does have coeliac disease - at the age of 64.
“I was very honoured to be asked a few years back to be Ambassador of Coeliac UK as I wanted to give as much support as I could to help raise the awareness of the condition in the media and to the general public,” said Dr Chris.
“However, I never dreamt that I myself would then be diagnosed! I think I have been having symptoms of diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fatigue on and off for many years, but it wasn’t until they got so bad recently that I did anything about it and I will be encouraging everyone with similar symptoms to see their GP and be tested rather than suffering in silence,” he said.
At least 1 in 100 people in the UK has coeliac disease. However, only 12.5% of those have currently been diagnosed and Coeliac UK estimates that there are over half a million people undiagnosed in the UK.
Symptoms of coeliac disease range from mild to severe and can vary between individuals. They include bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, wind, tiredness, anaemia, headaches, mouth ulcers, weight loss - but not in all cases, skin problems, depression, joint or bone pain and nerve problems.
www.thefamilygp.com/Dr-Chris-and-Coeliac-Disease.htm
******************************************
Peter Benenson
Died 2005
Founder of Amnesty International
1959 - Benenson develops coeliac disease, an irritation of the bowel caused by intolerance to gluten. He takes a break from law and moves to Italy to recuperate. He will later establish a society for people with the disease.
www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/benenson.html
***********************************
Posted by sian north wales (by proxy) on 22/9/2004,
Another high profile celeb is Gaby Roslin
Gaby is promoting Nutrition Point gf sandwiches- she says she is wheat-intolerant rather than coeliac but the diet looks familiar!
Sian's hubby.
****************
Hayley Turner, jockey.
From The Times online
January 19, 2009
Hayley Turner removes blinkers of prejudice
Turner was the first female to be champion apprentice, which caused a brief flutter. Last summer, she captained the British jockeys in the Shergar Cup team event at a packed Ascot. Twice, she has been voted by Channel 4 viewers as Racing Personality of the Year - this time by a landslide 67 per cent. ………..
….She attended Southwell Minster School and excelled at Drama. “I liked acting then but I couldn't do it now, no chance,” she said. “I enjoyed school but I didn't want to go where they were pointing me.” All she wanted, in fact, was to ride horses, but her next stop, the Northern Racing College, brought an unpleasant surprise.
“They were testing for an allergy to gluten called Coeliac disease, because they said it affects a lot of little people. I gave a blood sample and it came back positive,” she said. “So they gave me an endoscopy, which was horrible. Now I can't eat bread, biscuits, cakes or pasta - and I can't drink beer, which at least is good for my weight.
“My diet is so bad, though. I'm not normally a breakfast person and I always had a can of Red Bull every morning but I've been told to cut that out now, as it's not good for me.”
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article5542269.ece
**************
Mari Wilson
She was known as ‘Miss Beehive’
...and was a familiar face back in the
1980s....diagnosed with diabetes.....
...She also has an underactive thyroid gland and coeliac disease, which she finds the hardest to cope with. Tucking into a slice of what she calls ‘really awful bread’, she tells me about the gluten free diet she has been on for the last ten years....Most of the support she has had for coeliac disease is through Coeliac UK. ..
www.diabetes.org.uk/balance/186/186mar.htm
---------
From CUK
Mari Wilson, also known as the Neasden Queen of Soul talks about living with coeliac disease through decades of chart success
www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/case-studies/mari-wilson
*****************
Olympic Medallist Yvonne Murray-Mooney has a coeliac daughter
Olympic Medallist Yvonne Murray-Mooney MBE has a daughter, Laura, who has CD.
*********************
Cesarina Holm-Kander
Posted by s on 5/2/2007
GF board
Cesarina Holm-Kander who presented Channel 4's Your Money or Your Wife is a coeliac. She really suffered due to missed diagnosis.
***************************
Shirley-Anne Somerville has a daughter with CD
Published Date: 23 May 2010
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
WHEN MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville noticed her baby daughter Niamh was not putting on weight, she was afraid something was seriously wrong.
After months of anxiety, and discussions with doctors and health visitors about her constant sickness and extreme fatigue, the family
took her to a hospital when she developed a fever. It was here they learned the truth – she had coeliac disease, and gluten, a protein in wheat, was making her sick.
Niamh is now a normal toddler of 22 months who for six months has been on a gluten-free diet….
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/health/MSP-ShirleyAnne-Somerville-wants-to.6313578.jp
**********************************
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
Charles, Tiggy and the rumour about their affair that won't go away
By RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY
Daily Mail
…..As Tiggy {Legge-Bourke}was promoted to the senior title of the Prince's personal assistant (even though she still looked after the boys) she became increasingly aware of malicious rumours.
According to one friend, she bravely 'shrugged them off as the price I must pay for working for the Prince of Wales'.
Meanwhile, with cruel timing, as Diana watched, the girl who romped and played with her sons was physically changing shape.
The slightly chubby girl, who had originally joined the staff on trial as assistant to the Prince's private secretary Commander Richard Aylard, was suddenly losing weight.
Before Diana's highly suspicious gaze she was becoming slim, svelte and very attractive.
What the Princess didn't know until she read about it in Hello! magazine was that
Tiggy's loss of two stone was due to a food intolerance - coeliac disease - which had stopped her eating wheat and bread products and put her on a diet. ……..
****************************
Bob Holness
TV presenter Bob Holness has CD.
Source: Crossed Grain Spring 2008 page 25.
Died 6th January 2012 aged 83.
******************
Ben (in Hotel Babylon) has CD
From CUK
Michael Obiora, who plays receptionist Ben in Hotel Babylon and also …appeared in Eastenders. … diagnosed with coeliac disease,
********************
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton Weds in Rhinebeck
….
Chelsea Clinton, who has a gluten-allergy, was expected to serve some vegan items and a gluten-free cake at the reception. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703296204575401240654674832.html
*************************************************
Re: Famous Coeliacs
Working Lunch - Thu, 28 Jan 2010
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne was on the prog to coincide with Food Allergy & Intolerance Week (25th - 29th January)
She said her company Genius has 1 or 2 complaints a week about the bread.
Her ‘ Gluten intolerant’ son is now aged 7 . She started making her own different GF breads for him about 3 years ago because he didn’t like any of the existing GF bread.
She said that GF fresh bread did exist when she started to make her bread but she said it was / is ‘dense and heavy’ .
Her G company is backed by Sir Bill Gammell (multi millionaire , Chief Executive of Cairn Energy PLC …and Chairman of Cairn India Limited. ) whose son - fellow pupil of LG ’s son - ‘also has a gluten intolerance‘ )….
Sir Bill ‘put her in touch with a brand management company and helped to build a team to launch the product’.
G bread is made by automated process by United Central Bakeries, Edinburgh, general bakers , who make ordinary baked goods.-eg ’… various varieties of bread, cakes and pastries. Its parent company is the Finsbury Food Group and the group includes Memory Lane Cakes, Campbell's Cake Company and California Cake Company. …It also has a ‘successful gluten-free range, which includes doughnuts and pizza bases‘.
G bread costs £2.50 per loaf , L said high cost was due to the imported flours which are used - eg tapioca, rice .
18 new GF products are planned.
************************
Electronic Telegraph
ISSUE 1466 Monday 31 May 1999
Please call me Katharine
Interview by Helena de Bertodano
The Duchess of Kent is very unlike the media image that exists of a fragile, almost ethereal creature, floating through life and smiling sweetly at Wimbledon as she presents the trophies. In person she is much more abrasive and steely, with a sharp sense of humour....
"I'm a very happy person and I'm as strong as an ox . . . I don't have any problems with my health, except that I'm a coeliac, which means I have an allergy to wheat, barley, oats and rye."
**********************************
From:
The Duchess of Kent by Mary Riddell, page 362
ISBN 0 283 06329 7
..in an interview with the Daily Telegraph....Katherine explained that doctors had now isolated what was wrong with her. She had, she said, been diagnosed earlier in the year as ‘possibly’ having coeliac disease- an illness that interferes with the absorption of food- and put on a gluten-free diet. ‘It means that I may not have been absorbing food properly for fifteen to twenty years....
********************************************
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3503318.stm
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1039625.ece
*******************
Sir Richard Doll (died 2005) was a coeliac and Patron of Coeliac UK
***************************************
The late Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Warlock, was a coeliac.
www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=33
***************************************************
Dr. Chris Steele has coeliac disease
This article was published on Tue 19 January 2010
…Dr. Chris Steele has been diagnosed with coeliac disease. He revealed his condition yesterday on ITV’s This Morning show, where he is the resident doctor.
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease caused by intolerance to gluten. Damage is caused to the gut lining when gluten is eaten. There is no cure or drugs for the condition and the only treatment is life-long adherence to a strict gluten-free diet.
Without a gluten-free diet, the disease can lead to other serious conditions, such as malnutrition, osteoporosis, infertility, multiple miscarriages and can cause bowel cancer.
Somewhat ironically, Dr. Chris has been an ambassador of Coeliac UK, the national charity for people with coeliac disease, for the past three years.
Over the past few months Dr. Chris had been suffering with abdominal symptoms and his own GP referred him to a gastroenterologist.
Following blood tests and then a biopsy the results came back to confirm he does have coeliac disease - at the age of 64.
“I was very honoured to be asked a few years back to be Ambassador of Coeliac UK as I wanted to give as much support as I could to help raise the awareness of the condition in the media and to the general public,” said Dr Chris.
“However, I never dreamt that I myself would then be diagnosed! I think I have been having symptoms of diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fatigue on and off for many years, but it wasn’t until they got so bad recently that I did anything about it and I will be encouraging everyone with similar symptoms to see their GP and be tested rather than suffering in silence,” he said.
At least 1 in 100 people in the UK has coeliac disease. However, only 12.5% of those have currently been diagnosed and Coeliac UK estimates that there are over half a million people undiagnosed in the UK.
Symptoms of coeliac disease range from mild to severe and can vary between individuals. They include bloating, abdominal pain, nausea, constipation, diarrhoea, wind, tiredness, anaemia, headaches, mouth ulcers, weight loss - but not in all cases, skin problems, depression, joint or bone pain and nerve problems.
www.thefamilygp.com/Dr-Chris-and-Coeliac-Disease.htm
******************************************
Peter Benenson
Died 2005
Founder of Amnesty International
1959 - Benenson develops coeliac disease, an irritation of the bowel caused by intolerance to gluten. He takes a break from law and moves to Italy to recuperate. He will later establish a society for people with the disease.
www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/benenson.html
***********************************
Posted by sian north wales (by proxy) on 22/9/2004,
Another high profile celeb is Gaby Roslin
Gaby is promoting Nutrition Point gf sandwiches- she says she is wheat-intolerant rather than coeliac but the diet looks familiar!
Sian's hubby.
****************
Hayley Turner, jockey.
From The Times online
January 19, 2009
Hayley Turner removes blinkers of prejudice
Turner was the first female to be champion apprentice, which caused a brief flutter. Last summer, she captained the British jockeys in the Shergar Cup team event at a packed Ascot. Twice, she has been voted by Channel 4 viewers as Racing Personality of the Year - this time by a landslide 67 per cent. ………..
….She attended Southwell Minster School and excelled at Drama. “I liked acting then but I couldn't do it now, no chance,” she said. “I enjoyed school but I didn't want to go where they were pointing me.” All she wanted, in fact, was to ride horses, but her next stop, the Northern Racing College, brought an unpleasant surprise.
“They were testing for an allergy to gluten called Coeliac disease, because they said it affects a lot of little people. I gave a blood sample and it came back positive,” she said. “So they gave me an endoscopy, which was horrible. Now I can't eat bread, biscuits, cakes or pasta - and I can't drink beer, which at least is good for my weight.
“My diet is so bad, though. I'm not normally a breakfast person and I always had a can of Red Bull every morning but I've been told to cut that out now, as it's not good for me.”
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article5542269.ece
**************
Mari Wilson
She was known as ‘Miss Beehive’
...and was a familiar face back in the
1980s....diagnosed with diabetes.....
...She also has an underactive thyroid gland and coeliac disease, which she finds the hardest to cope with. Tucking into a slice of what she calls ‘really awful bread’, she tells me about the gluten free diet she has been on for the last ten years....Most of the support she has had for coeliac disease is through Coeliac UK. ..
www.diabetes.org.uk/balance/186/186mar.htm
---------
From CUK
Mari Wilson, also known as the Neasden Queen of Soul talks about living with coeliac disease through decades of chart success
www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/case-studies/mari-wilson
*****************
Olympic Medallist Yvonne Murray-Mooney has a coeliac daughter
Olympic Medallist Yvonne Murray-Mooney MBE has a daughter, Laura, who has CD.
*********************
Cesarina Holm-Kander
Posted by s on 5/2/2007
GF board
Cesarina Holm-Kander who presented Channel 4's Your Money or Your Wife is a coeliac. She really suffered due to missed diagnosis.
***************************
Shirley-Anne Somerville has a daughter with CD
Published Date: 23 May 2010
By Lyndsay Moss
Health Correspondent
WHEN MSP Shirley-Anne Somerville noticed her baby daughter Niamh was not putting on weight, she was afraid something was seriously wrong.
After months of anxiety, and discussions with doctors and health visitors about her constant sickness and extreme fatigue, the family
took her to a hospital when she developed a fever. It was here they learned the truth – she had coeliac disease, and gluten, a protein in wheat, was making her sick.
Niamh is now a normal toddler of 22 months who for six months has been on a gluten-free diet….
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/health/MSP-ShirleyAnne-Somerville-wants-to.6313578.jp
**********************************
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
Charles, Tiggy and the rumour about their affair that won't go away
By RICHARD KAY and GEOFFREY LEVY
Daily Mail
…..As Tiggy {Legge-Bourke}was promoted to the senior title of the Prince's personal assistant (even though she still looked after the boys) she became increasingly aware of malicious rumours.
According to one friend, she bravely 'shrugged them off as the price I must pay for working for the Prince of Wales'.
Meanwhile, with cruel timing, as Diana watched, the girl who romped and played with her sons was physically changing shape.
The slightly chubby girl, who had originally joined the staff on trial as assistant to the Prince's private secretary Commander Richard Aylard, was suddenly losing weight.
Before Diana's highly suspicious gaze she was becoming slim, svelte and very attractive.
What the Princess didn't know until she read about it in Hello! magazine was that
Tiggy's loss of two stone was due to a food intolerance - coeliac disease - which had stopped her eating wheat and bread products and put her on a diet. ……..
****************************
Bob Holness
TV presenter Bob Holness has CD.
Source: Crossed Grain Spring 2008 page 25.
Died 6th January 2012 aged 83.
******************
Ben (in Hotel Babylon) has CD
From CUK
Michael Obiora, who plays receptionist Ben in Hotel Babylon and also …appeared in Eastenders. … diagnosed with coeliac disease,
********************
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton Weds in Rhinebeck
….
Chelsea Clinton, who has a gluten-allergy, was expected to serve some vegan items and a gluten-free cake at the reception. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703296204575401240654674832.html
*************************************************
Re: Famous Coeliacs
Working Lunch - Thu, 28 Jan 2010
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne was on the prog to coincide with Food Allergy & Intolerance Week (25th - 29th January)
She said her company Genius has 1 or 2 complaints a week about the bread.
Her ‘ Gluten intolerant’ son is now aged 7 . She started making her own different GF breads for him about 3 years ago because he didn’t like any of the existing GF bread.
She said that GF fresh bread did exist when she started to make her bread but she said it was / is ‘dense and heavy’ .
Her G company is backed by Sir Bill Gammell (multi millionaire , Chief Executive of Cairn Energy PLC …and Chairman of Cairn India Limited. ) whose son - fellow pupil of LG ’s son - ‘also has a gluten intolerance‘ )….
Sir Bill ‘put her in touch with a brand management company and helped to build a team to launch the product’.
G bread is made by automated process by United Central Bakeries, Edinburgh, general bakers , who make ordinary baked goods.-eg ’… various varieties of bread, cakes and pastries. Its parent company is the Finsbury Food Group and the group includes Memory Lane Cakes, Campbell's Cake Company and California Cake Company. …It also has a ‘successful gluten-free range, which includes doughnuts and pizza bases‘.
G bread costs £2.50 per loaf , L said high cost was due to the imported flours which are used - eg tapioca, rice .
18 new GF products are planned.
************************