“23.5 million Americans -- that's one in twelve -- suffer from autoimmune disease, making it more prevalent than cancer or heart disease.” - Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 4, 2010 -- The Lupus Foundation of America, Connecticut Chapter, presents its first annual Author Symposium on February 6, 2010 from 10AM to 4PM at 545 Long Wharf Drive, New Haven, Connecticut. This event will feature two keynote speakers; Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of the Autoimmune Epidemic, and Bernie Siegel, M.D. and bestselling author of Faith, Hope and Healing. Dr. Joseph Craft and Wendy Battles-Plasse will also be presenting at the symposium.

Nakazawa's book focuses on how to protect your immune system while exploring possible causes and potential cures for nearly 100 autoimmune diseases including Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, Crohn’s Disease, Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and other autoimmune related diseases like Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. THE AUTOIMMUNE EPIDEMIC combines up-to-the-minute research emerging out of dozens of today’s cutting-edge scientific labs with the front line perspective of autoimmune sufferers.
Keynote speaker Dr. Bernie Siegel will be sharing his experience with exceptional patients, how powerful the will to live can be, and the physical benefits derived from accepting one's mortality and healing your life. The idea of unconditional love as being the most powerful stimulant of the immune system is a common theme in Seigel’s work.

Dr. Joseph Craft, Yale University School of Medicine Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology, Chief of Rheumatology Section, and Director of the Investigative Medicine Program, will be wowing us with his extensive knowledge on autoimmunity. Dr. Craft directs a research laboratory at Yale devoted to understanding T lymphocyte differentiation and function in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus). His research has been continually supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1985, where he is a current NIH MERIT award recipient, and he is the author of over 140 scientific publications.

Last, but my no means least, clean living coach and owner/founder of Healthy Endeavors- a health coaching and consulting firm, Wendy Battles-Plasse, MA, HHC will be speaking on a nutritional approach. Her teleseminar “Money Saving Meal Planning: Quick, Healthy and Delicious Meals on a Budget” taught individuals a simple system to change their mindset about meal planning and how to plan weekly meals that are both healthy and have an eye on the bottom line. Along the way, Battles-Plasse shares a multitude of resources, tools and forms to make meal planning systematic week after week. She has also developed a simple Money Saving Meal Planning Home Study Course.
This is sure to be an exciting and informative event! If you would like more information or to purchase tickets contact the Connecticut chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America at 860-269-6240 or email office@lupusct.org! You can also purchase tickets at www.lupusct.org or http://lupusct.eventbrite.com/?ref=estw

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