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IBS and Central Seattle GIG Support Group

The Innate Health Foundation sponsors a support group meeting at the IBS Treatment Center, open to the public usually on the first Tuesday of the month from 6:30-7:45PM. Meet other people with IBS, food allergies, and/or gluten intolerance at these fun and educational events. Dr. Wangen attends most meetings. For more information, please call 206-264-1111.

The Next Meeting Is on Tuesday, September 1st (We are taking July and August off)

Next Meeting: Tuesday, Septebmer 1st from 6:30 to 7:45 PM.

Program for the September meeting to be determined.

Location: IBS Treatment Center, 1229 Madison St. Suite 1220, Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: 206-264-1111 View driving directions

Meetings may be heard live by phone conference call. Long Distance charges may apply. To hear the presentation live, please call the teleconference access number: (712) 432-0850 and use Participant Access Code: 504861# to join the call at 6:30 PM. Please mute your side of the call to avoid interfering with the presentation by pressing *6. If the presenter asks for questions from the phone audience, you may un-mute your phone by pressing *6 again. (Thanks to Jim Young for helping us get this set up.) If you have free long distance, such as through your cell phone provider, you can listen in for free.

Tom A Malterre, MS, CN, MS Nutrition, Certified Nutritionist was ouir June 2nd guest. Tom is co-author of the Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook www.wholelifenutrition.net and author of the recipe blog-www.glutenfreewholefoods.blogspot.com. Mr. Malterre is a well known nutritionist and shared lots of great insights while making 2 excellent dishes for us. First was a quinoa dish with cilantro, red pepper, lime juice, and etc. It was excellent light fare for a warm evening. Then his masterpiece - chocolate truffles. The truffles were amazingly simple, free of most allergens containing just 4 ingredients (no sugar!!). They tasted fantastic. You can listen to an audio recording of the conference call using the link below. This is a big file (over an hour) suitable for Ipod or any MP3 player.

Beverly Kindblade MS RD CD spoke to our May meeting. Her primary topic was nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, and the best foods to meet your needs. Beve is a nutirionist with many years of both university-level teaching and private practice experience. Ms. Kindblade can be found on the web at http://www.seattlenutrition.com/. You can listen to an audio recording of the conference call using the link below. This is a big file (over an hour) suitable for Ipod or any MP3 player.

The April meeting featured Julie Starkel, MS, MBA, RD as our special guest. She spoke about how she helps people make practical choices, find alternatives, and otherwise do the nitty gritty things they need to do to change their diet. In her practice she focuses on IBS and digestion issues as well as autoimmune disorders, food allergies, weight issues, and sports nutrition. As a partner in Greenlake Nutrition Ms. Starkel helps people make the real changes they need to reach their goals.

The attempt to record this meeting encountered insurmountable technological barriers. See later meetings recorded successfully availabe below.

The folllowing are MP3 format recordings of the support group meeting conference calls. These recordings may be played on an Ipod or on your computer's media player, e.g. Windows Media Player, etc.

June 2009 Support Group Meeting Conference Call Recording - Tom Malterre, Speaker

May 2009 Support Group Meeting Conference Call Recording - Beve Kindblade, Speaker