Welcome to Episode 14 of the Allergy mom podcast, an interview with online food allergy magazine – Zestfull‘s cofounder Kortney Kwong Hing.
About Kortney:
Kortney has only known life with food allergies. She manages multiple food allergies, asthma, eczema and OAS. Kortney is the co-founder of Zestfull, an online magazine that celebrates life with food allergies. She is also the co-host of The Itch Podcast. She wants to spread joy in a community that can easily see the hard side of life with atopic disease and believes that you can have a full life with food allergies, it may just be lived a little differently!
Topics Discussed in this Episode:
- Kortney’s early diagnosis as a baby with food allergies
- Oral Allergy Syndrome
- The Allergic March
- Asthma vs. Anaphylaxis
- How Kortney developed her “secret” blog in her 20s- Allergy Girl Eats (Note – this site is now retired)
- Kortney’s partnership with an allergy mom to share the positive side of food allergies through an online magazine called The Zestfull
- Traditional, cultural foods and food allergies
- Intuitive Eating -listening to your body and eating mindfully
- The Itch Podcast with Dr. Gupta – where Kortney and Dr. Gupta dive deep into allergic disease and asthma – you will learn and understand while keeping it simple enough for the lay person to get it
- Kortney’s asthma wake-up call – how she learned the serious cues she was ignoring and what she did about it
- …and more!
Kortney’s Links:
The Zestfull Online Allergy Magazine https://thezestfull.com
Zestfull on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/theZestfull/
Kortney @allergy_girl_eats https://www.instagram.com/allergy_girl_eats/ on Instagram
Zestfull on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/zestfull/
Zestfull on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theZestfull
Zestfull Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPzqK_oY93Xd823Hy3XZNw?fbclid=IwAR1gx5xwhGKeK3-yabaLRLZBHSjkPF3HvGcHG81N-pGqw4nPxLNPq6rm9SQ
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