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Again and again I am amazed how some people have so much energy that they can overcome any obstacle in their lives. Ones of the most inspiring people I met in this context is Tony Cervati, a type 1 diabetic and crazy mountain bike rider. Please don’t get me wrong, I mean crazy in the most positive way imaginable!
 Since I learned in January that celiac disease and type 1 diabetes often occur together, Custom Choice Cereal decided to support Type1Rider in his mission to raise awareness for diabetes, educate about it, and support and encourage those who have it. You can show your support for Tony by getting an awesome Type1Rider t-shirt or hoodie with the logos of all his sponsors!
Tony founded Type1Rider as an organization “dedicated to both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetic athletes”. He uses “racing and cycling event participation as a vehicle to convey information and data about daily management, training, riding, techniques, and technologies available in order to improve their health”. One way for Tony to improve his health and boost his performance is by creating the perfect gluten-free cereal for his training and races! He particularly appreciates the automatically updating nutrition label as it provides him with vital information for his diet,
Check out the Type1Rider blog or follow Type1Rider on twitter.
You might or might not like the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). We at Custom Choice Cereal are certainly not going to take any sides…  However, we came across a story about a UFC fighter with celiac disease (please ignore that they call it a wheat allergy) and wanted to share his story with you.
 Dennis Hallman said in an interview with MMA Junkie Radio that he never understood why he was so exhausted after training or why his cardio failed him in the octagon. When doctors diagnosed him with celiac disease they found out that for him it meant that his body was unable to produce testosterone and cartisol because of the gluten in his diet. Both these hormones are essential to the performance and recovery of an athlete.
Since going off wheat (and we might add: hopefully going off gluten alltogether!) in May, Dennis has immediately noticed the difference, most strikingly in his recovery after training and fights. He now feels like a “new man”. Here is what struck us at Custom Choice Cereal most about this story: when the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team went on a gluten-free diet they noticed the exact same effect – better recovery – even though none of them have celiac disease or are intolerant to gluten.
Even though we are not qualified to give medical advice these stories seem to indicate that reducing the gluten intake cannot be bad. And what better way to start than with a tasty gluten-free cereal with exactly the ingredients you love?
Custom Choice Cereal congratulates the German national soccer team on an awesome performance in the quarter finals against Argentina. We’d be millionaires if we had bet on this result…
Awareness for celiac disease is fortunately on the rise thanks to the combined effort of many many people. We at Custom Choice Cereal want to thank all of you for your hard and dedicated work! At the same time, more and more people realize that they benefit from a gluten-free diet, and we have blogged about a professional cycling team seeing great performance improvements after having cut gluten from their diet.
That’s why we were excited when we saw that tennis player Mike Bryan follows a gluten-free diet. If he and his twin brother Bob win in Wimbledon this year, they will break the current record of 61 all-time ATP doubles titles currently held by “The Woodies” Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde.
We at Custom Choice Cereal are wondering what Mike has for breakfast and think he should try customizing his personal gluten-free cereal some time. In any case, we will pull for Bob and Mike Bryan and hope they can make their dream come true by setting the new record of all-times ATP doubles titles!
 I could devote an entire blog to the Soccer World Cup and its many surprises, the latest of which being current champion Italy not advancing to the next round after its 2:3 loss against Slovakia. A good Italian friend of mine summarized his disappointment by saying “It was the worse team in Italian soccer history, and we deserved to go home. Nothing more than that, we will start rebuilding and will come back…now I will sit down and hope to watch better games.” Well said. Don’t forget that the US are playing Ghana on Saturday at 2:30pm EST…
On to happier things for everyone: your gluten-free cereal creations! You mix them virtually and name them, we at Custom Choice Cereal hand-mix them in our dedicated gluten-free facility so that you can enjoy a worry-free start into your day! As a tribute to your creativity, here are some of the (subjectively) best names you came up with:
5. Cynthia Crunchies (An evergreen among the cereal names)
4. Jungie YumYum (Exactly!)
3. Booberry Blend (Nice word play…)
2. Celiac Man Granola (Guess someone found his perfect breakfast!)
1. And this week’s winner is Andrea’s New Wedding Diet
Chris and I hope you have a great fun- and soccer-filled weekend!
 As evident from our blog post about the World Cup in South Africa, the Custom Choice Cereal team was very excited about a the beginning of a month filled with great soccer. Saturday brought a big surprise as the favored English team couldn’t get past a 1:1 tied game against the US. The American team scored with what seemed a rather desperate long-distance shot – which England’s goalie Green let slip through his fingers.
However, keeping up with a good tradition, we now recognize the some of the names that you gave your gluten-free cereal creations in the past week. Once again you were pretty creative, so thanks for that!
5. BP Granola (these were the customer’s initials, so no oil here!)
4. Mama’s Miracle Mix (perfect for the young mom)
3. Cereal and Fruit Monster (a truly monstrous mix!)
2. What exactly is a Goji? (2 words for you: super fruit)
1. And this week’s winner is Father’s Day Special
Don’t forget that Father’s Day is coming up! A gluten-free cereal creations with his favorite ingredients makes a great gift and June 20th is pretty close, so make sure to surprise Dad with his personal cereal mix!
 Ha! I can’t recall having used the phrase “kicking off” ever in a more literal sense. Since this is the first time the FIFA has selected an African country to host the soccer World Cup, all of us here at Custom Choice Cereal really hope that at least one African team advances to the semi-finals. It would be a dream if this team would be South Africa, but first we’ll have to see how they play in the first game in – what a coincidence – 90 minutes from now!
Like every soccer fan, I truly enjoy to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of individual teams, to speculate about who is most likely to take home the trophy, to discover the underdogs. Let’s be honest, it’s almost as much fun as watching the games themselves! Here are some of my personal and obviously biased thoughts about teams with the potential to win the 2010 Soccer World Cup:
- Argentina – At the top of my list, not only alphabetically
- Brazil – Great soccer nation but don’t think they can do it this year
- Germany – Playing without Ballack can be a curse or a blessing
- Italy – Not again. My guess is they’ll lose in the semi-finals
- Netherlands – An outstanding team, need to watch them
- Spain – I’m really not sure about them but definitely can win
Let’s hope for a great event with lots of fun for everyone. Most of all I hope that the African continent and South Africa in particular can benefit from the attention they get over the next four weeks even after July 11 when we know who won the 2010 Soccer World Cup!
 The Custom Choice Cereal crew had the pleasure to meet with Tony Cervati earlier this week. Tony was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes – that’s the form of diabetes where the body does not produce any insulin – 32 years ago. Only 5-10% of all diabetics are Type 1.
Despite having tested his blood glucose over 75,000 times and have taken almost 52,000 injections, Tony does not let his condition slow him down. Quite the contrary! An avid mountain biker, Tony started Type1Rider.org to promote awareness and education of diabetes, and to “provide support and encouragement for all diabetic cyclists”. He competes in various races and is as energetic a person as one can possible imagine!
It was just great fun for us at Custom Choice Cereal to meet and talk with Tony. We wrote about the link between Type 1 Diabetes and celiac disease before (in our 100th blog post, yay!). The American Diabetes Association states on its website that
“about 1 in 20 people with type 1 diabetes has celiac disease”.
Since we just met Tony and were (and still are!) so impressed by what he does, we took the opportunity to refresh our own and our readers’ memory. The connection between celiac disease and Type 1 Diabetes is why Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center tests all of their Type 1 diabetics for celiac disease.
Interesting enough for Tony, we could tell him that the Garmin-Transitions professional cycling team went on a gluten-free diet and saw significant improvements in their digestion, sleep, recovery and, ultimately, in their performance. What a great coincidence that we offer a great solution to start your gluten-free day on the right foot!
 We at Custom Choice Cereal love our new Saturdays at the Hillsborough Farmers Market. It is not only an outstanding incentive to get up early and enjoy the beauty of the waking day, it also provides us with a great opportunity to hear your concerns and feedback. During one of these conversations we learned about a very interesting article that we wanted to share with you.
 Men’s Journal wrote about how the gluten-free diet powers one of the best cycling teams in the world and how it can help anyone perform better and recover faster. The athletes of the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team were at first highly opposed to changing their diet away from pasta just because it’s been such a habit to load up on carbs this way. But team leader Christian Vande Velde and his teammate Tom Danielson embarked on a gluten-free diet, and both were pleasantly surprised. Tom said:
“My performance really improved a lot — there was definitely a correlation. I think that my digestion is better, and because of that my sleep is better and my recovery is better.”
 We at Custom Choice Cereal learned once again that humans are very different from cows, definitely when it comes to our digestive system That’s because we have only a single stomach and lack the enzymes in our saliva and stomach to fully break down and absorb gluten for nutritional use. As a result, parts of the gluten just get smashed up before exiting to the small bowel in large pieces. And here comes the crucial part. According to Michelle M. Pietzak from the University of Southern California Keck’s School of Medicine
“More than 50 different types of those fragments have been shown to cause adverse reactions. So depending on your genetic makeup, you can have an allergy, you can have celiac disease, or it could be that you’re just not digesting it well.“
Point proven. Gluten-free diet is great for everyone! Start with a delicious custom gluten-free cereal now!
We are torn! Those of you that have read our story know that Custom Choice Cereal’s logo includes Carolina Blue as a tribute to our beloved Tar Heels.
Watching them only play in the “Not-In-Tournament” tournament (but what we think playing some of the best basketball of the 2009/2010 season) was not what we had hoped for. This season has been really tough on us, and the picture below says it all:
The team from the school down the road from us aka The Duke Blue Devils are not only playing in the NCAA but have made it to the finals where they are facing the Butler Bulldogs today. Should we be cheering for Butler (read “against Dook”), be neutral, or cheer for Duke (at least the trophy will stay in North Carolina, and it will be even sweeter if Carolina beats Duke next year)??
Intense discussion with friends and family over the last couple of days resulted in the last of the three options – we never thought this would happen but Custom Choice Cereal has to admit it: we will root for Duke tonight…
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