FAAN Walk for Food Allergy: Moving Toward A Cure Comes to Tampa, Florida

Sept. 22, 2009 - PRLog -- The event, to be held in 35 cities across the country as well as online, is sponsored by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) to increase awareness about food allergy and to raise money for research and education.

Registration for FAAN’s Walk for Food Allergy is open to families, community groups, and anyone else wishing to raise funds for food allergy education and research. Registration is online at www.foodallergywalk.org.

Sponsors are also being sought; the Walk is a great way for businesses to show their support for families facing the challenges of managing food allergies.

More than 12 million Americans have food allergy, which is the leading cause of anaphylaxis (a severe and potentially fatal allergic reaction) outside the hospital setting and results in more than 30,000 emergency room visits each year. Eight foods account for 90 percent of all allergic reactions in the U.S.: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, pecans, etc.), wheat, soy, fish, and shellfish. Food allergy afflicts one in 25 Americans overall, and one in 17 under age 3.


ABOUT FAAN
Founded in 1991, the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) is the world leader in information about food allergy, a potentially fatal condition that afflicts about 12 million Americans, or one out of every 25. A nonprofit organization based in Fairfax, Va., FAAN has 30,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and 62 other countries. It is dedicated to increasing public awareness of food allergy and its consequences, to educating people about the condition, and to advancing research on behalf of all those affected by it. FAAN provides information and educational resources about food allergy to patients, their families, schools, health professionals, pharmaceutical companies, the food industry, and government officials.

For more information, please visit FAAN at www.foodallergy.org, www.faankids.org. You may go directly to the local walk website at www.foodallergywalk.org/tampa_fl.