Food Allergy Force: Awareness to Action

Food Allergy Force: Awareness to Action!

33 million Strong. 1 Mission: Safety, Inclusion, Respect.

Food Allergies aren’t a niche issue – they’re a world-wide reality!

1 in 13 kids in the USA has a food allergy; 1 in 10 adults also have food allergies.

☠️ That’s 33 million reasons for companies, restaurants, entertainment to take notice.

And if you add in food intolerances, our number grows to 85 million Americans. That’s without considering most people eat out/travel with on average 2 other people.

Now we are 255 million people.

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Want to hear about a day in the life of a person with Food Allergies?

Food Allergies: A Day in the Life

My heart honestly stopped…we had been traveling back home from a trip to Florida to see family when I noticed my daughter’s arm was rapidly having welts appear…in a matter of a few minutes, my healthy teenage daughter was now coughing & having an anaphylactic reaction…

I quickly maneuvered onto the side of the interstate while calling 911 from my cell phone.

Telling myself to “stay calm, follow our allergy plan…deep breathes” …

My 12-year-old son is calling from the back seat, “Mom, you have to give Katie the Epi-pen!!”

Grabbing the Epi-pen & still speaking to the 911 dispatcher, time seemed to move very, very slowly, like I was dreaming.

But hearing sirens, I looked up & a SC state trooper had heard my 911 call & in the middle of a rainstorm, drove down the exit ramp the wrong way, to help us.

Thankfully, my mom was with us, and she accompanied Katie in the ambulance while we followed, not knowing the area,

To say it was very, very frightening is an understatement.

SNL Skit is Not a Laughing Matter

To anyone who laughed at the recent SNL skit on “Wanting to have a Food Allergy so that you can pre-board” an airplane, I want to tell you how sad I feel for you.

How I hope you or your loved ones never develop a food allergy.

You see, this has been our lives since my daughter Katie was 1^st diagnosed at 15-months old.

Life threatening, death as a real possibility, Food Allergies.

Add in my daughter’s asthma & she is statistically in the Danger Zone – the people who can seriously die from inadvertently eating, touching or ingesting a single bite of food.

See, for us, peanuts are our Kryptonite.

Also, shellfish & legumes.

Katie didn’t eat something that had peanuts in it, she simply walked into a gas station to use the restroom & the boiled peanuts caused her anaphylactic allergic reaction.

Fighting for Your Life

Watching my teenage daughter fight for her life was devastating.

Thank God, she recovered.

But not everyone is so fortunate.

Do you remember that 1 in 10 American adults has a food allergy?

Or that 1 in 13 kids has a food allergy?

We are not a small group & our numbers are growing, unfortunately.

SO, for anyone thinking that “we want to have a food allergy so that we can pre-board an airplane” as the SNL show said…is simply insensitive, uniformed & ignorant.

Realities of Living with a Food Allergy

Every week it seems, I hear about someone who dies from an anaphylactic food allergy reaction.

It’s not a laughing matter.

For those of us with a food allergy (33 million Americans alone), we need to start harnessing our purchasing power to impact companies and programs that make our invisible disability NOT a laughing matter.

It’s starting today. Food Allergy Force: Awareness to Action.

Join me in our Campaign to Shine Light on Food Allergies Seriousness. More info to come as we launch this initiative.

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Unfortunately, we’re experts.

And there’s no stopping our Food Allergy Force: Awareness to Action!

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There’s nothing funny about watching someone you love fight for every breath. We know all too well from experience.

Food Allergy Experts

Currently CEO and founder of An Easy Journey, LLC. – a female-owned business Cindi started in 2018 which specializes in Living & Traveling with Food Allergies.

Cindi Korpacz is an enthusiastic and innovative professional with extensive experience travel consulting, advocating, training and speaking for the millions of Americans with life-threatening food allergies.

She is passionate about helping others with food allergies/dietary restrictions travel often, as she has a deep personal understanding of how very challenging it can be to travel, especially internationally due to food allergies.

Cindi has been an early advocate and educator on Food Allergies and spoke at previous National FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education) Conferences, a top FARE fundraising team & has trained Big 10 universities on recognizing & developing their Food Allergy Action Plans & Study Abroad Programs.

Early on, she was instrumental in implementing school food allergy safety protocols & advocacy. 

🎥🎬 And for media companies, we are happy to consult on any programming for food allergy accurateness/understanding.

🏝️✈️ Our company offers training to the Travel & Hospitality, Corporations & Educational facilities.

Now, media and movie industries.

Want to go deeper?

See: Real Epidemic No One is Talking About: Food Allergies.

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