August 2, 2012
Mr. Jon Smith
Editor
Prevention Magazine
PO Box 1111
Sacramento, CA
30655
Dear Mr.
Smith:
The New
England Journal of Medicine reports that celiac disease, the most serious health
reaction to gluten, affects one in every 100 people, or over 3 million
Americans. Yet, a milder form of gluten sensitivity (GS) is even more
common, and may affect the health of up to one-third of our population, or
almost 100 million Americans.
Why, then,
have we not heard much about GS? In reality, we most likely have.
Gluten sensitivity masquerades as scores of other diseases whose names we
frequently hear. An estimated 99 percent of people who have this
difficulty digesting gliadin, a gluten sub-protein, do not even know it.
They attribute their symptoms to a variety of other ailments, when in reality
the cause is gluten.
I would like
to offer you a 1,500-word article entitled, “Gluten Sensitivity: The Great
Masquerader.” The article discusses the most frequent misdiagnoses whose
common cause is gluten in the diet. Diseases such as irritable bowel disease,
rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, anxiety, depression, migraines, autism, and many
others, all have been linked to a diet containing gluten. This article is
an easy follow-on to the November 2011 Prevention magazine
article entitled, “Celiac Disease: When Your Gut Screams No!” and a great Also
Read to your article “Seven Diseases Doctors Miss,” published the same month.
Recent research
reveals gluten-related illnesses strike women three times more than men. Prevention magazine has a U.S. audience of 9.3 million readers, a thriving Web
site, and a readership where the most engaged and loyal are influential,
educated, and health-minded women. Easily, the information in this
article could help millions of women both in the United States and
internationally.
The article has five sections:
·
The GS Spectrum – The GS spectrum defined, and the
most common GS
symptoms
·
The Gluten Masquerade – Ten of the most common
gluten-related diseases,
un-“masked”
·
A Look in the Mirror – How to test for GS
·
When Gluten is the Enemy - Eating with GS,
gluten-free lifestyle
·
Gluten-free Resources – GS Tests, Gluten-free food,
Helpful books, magazines
Websites
A list of
resources from which I will draw is contained on the final page.
I believe this
timely and informative article may be of interest to you and your readers.
I can have the article to you within two weeks of your approval.
I will call
you on Thursday, August 9, to see if I might be able to answer any questions
you may have about a feature story on Gluten Sensitivity.
Thank you for
your interest, and I appreciate your time!
Sincerely,
Susan Young
WindScribe
Inc.
Resources
Cardillio, D. RN, MA. (2011, August 16).
Gluten-free for health: Fad or fact? The Dr. Oz Show. Message
posted to http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/donna-cardillo-rn-ma/gluten-free-health-fad-or-fact
Hyman, M. (2010, January 2). Gluten: What you don’t
know might kill you. Huffington Post Healthy Living Weblog. Message
posted to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/gluten-what-you-dont-know_b_379089.html
Jetter, A. (2011, November). Seven diseases
doctors miss. Prevention. Retrieved from http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/celiac-disease-heart-disease-and-more-hard-diagnose-conditions?page=3
Mangum, A. (2011, November). Celiac
disease: When your gut screams No! Prevention. Retrieved from http://www.prevention.com/health/health-concerns/celiac-disease-and-going-gluten-free
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