I’m curious. When you were growing up, were there anywhere near the number of picky eaters oops I mean “food allergies” among your acquaintences?
I never knew a single one. Not one! NO ONE in school had a “food allergy”.
Until maybe ten or fifteen years ago all this “food sensitivity” crap was unheard of.
Strange, don’t you think? How did society progress to this sorry point?
There were always picky eaters.
How did we get here? We made it the gubmints place to decide what you eat.
Something doesn’t agree with your system? Don’t eat it!
This aint that hard.
I never knew a single one. Not one! NO ONE in school had a “food allergy”.
Until maybe ten or fifteen years ago all this “food sensitivity” crap was unheard of.
Strange, don’t you think? How did society progress to this sorry point?
Actually, you're making a very good observation. Many scientists are trying to figure out what's triggering the immune systems of people living in Western countries.
More and more are buying into the "Hygeine Hypothesis". It's thought that we're too clean. Our bodies are designed to deal with dirty water, parasites, unwashed hands, etc. We've filtered the water, dewormed the entire Western world and introduced antibacterial soaps into every home. Now our immune systems have nothing to chew on, so it turns on us (autoimmune diseases) and over-reacts to everything (allergies).
Many, *many* people in my family are being diagnosed with Celiac disease. What's weird is that nobody can remember anyone having problems before the 1980's. Then people in every generation of my family all started getting sick at the same time. Suddenly everybody started having problems with gluten.
Years later and we've got hypothyroidism, type one diabetes, alopecia, Chrones disease, autoimmune peripheral neuropathy and more.
I don't know if something changed with the wheat or if something changed us, but it didn't seem to matter *where* you were in the world, if you were in my family, you got sick after 1980.
Some people think that it's a new, undiscovered virus (or an old one that's mutated) that's actually spreading through the population like a disease. People with certain genetic make-ups are susceptible, others are resistant.
Some people suspect vaccines, but I'm leaning away from that theory.
Whatever's going on, something is wrong.
Please don't think that people with Celiac disease are "picky eaters". We're really not.
I have a 31 inch waist. (I'm almost 40. What do you want! lol!) I ate a Kit Kat two days ago. It didn't hit me the first night and I didn't even think about what I did. Yesterday I was throwing up most of the day. Today my belly started to swell and I'm sitting here with a very uncomfortable 38" waist dealing with "other" unpleasant symptoms.
My son nearly died when he was just over a year old from Celiac disease. He lost 1/3rd of his body weight and had massive malnutrition. After just two weeks on an elimination diet, he was thriving.
I used to think that people with food intolerances were just being big babies. Now I know and I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
As far as people taking care of themselves, I couldn't agree more. I have a store of GF noodles, a LOT of rice, potato flakes and peanut butter set aside for a rainy day. YOu don't *need* special GF foods to live healthy as a Celiac. Rice, potatoes and grits are perfectly acceptable "filler" foods for poor Celiacs. The GF noodles, breads and cookies are a nice break, but not necessary.
Exactly. We have no kids (of the 15 Grandkids) that have any ‘food’ problem except from one that developed childhood diabetes; and he’s a skinny little runt, active in all kinds of sports, not one to sit around the house for two minutes.
My point of the article was that if we cater to every diet whim of the Hand-Out Hanks’ of this world, where does it end?
It doesn’t. People need to be more self-sufficient. You could plunk them down in front of a full freezer and pantry and they STILL couldn’t feed themselves.
And I totally agree; a LOT of these medical ‘conditions’ are by design. Heck, years ago when Hillary! was pimping her health care her GOAL was to ‘get the children, first.’
We’re seeing it today and the bleeding hearts out there are enabling this stupidity and it’s up to us ‘deniers’ to call them out on it.
I’ve known a lot of people with food allergies. Usually it’s lactose intolerance, some folks it’s more of a rash, I’ve got one friend whose mouth skin will slough off if he eats tomatoes. The last one was responsible for me discovering calzones. I’ve learned I actually have a lot of food allergies, but they just give me gas, the people around me suffer but I’m OK.
It’s the genetically altered foods. Our grandparents and out parents didn’t grow up with all these foods that have been genetically altered for mass production. There’s another article on wheat gluten that explains how the wheat of today and wheat of our grandparents differs all you have to do is search FR for gluten and it will come up. It’s a very good article and reinforced to me why I am now 3weeks gluten free and feeling so much better.