Food Allergies Stir a Mother to Action

New York Times ^ | 1/9/2008 | KIM SEVERSON

[RepoGirl]

Yeah, and I hear that dihydrogen monoxide is in EVERYTHING... it's a global conspiracy, I tells ya!

Did you ever see the episode of Penn & Teller's BullS*** on getting a petition to ban it at an eco rally?

It was hilarious.

[HoosierHawk]

Swell. Another nanny-state, “it’s for the health of the children,” do-gooder star is born.

[ShadowAce]

Yup--our garden was about 1 acre, we raised our own beef, chicken, pork, eggs, wheat, honey, and fruit.

A lot of hard work, but I think it was worth it. Not only for my brother, but for all off us and the perspective it gave us on farmers and pioneers.

[frogjerk]

you posted “Mothers having kids at 45 and 50” How does that extrapolate in to “36”?

It doesn't. I never said that was the case in this article. I was referring to the increase in allergies being discovered in children.

[nhoward14]

What? Who are you?

[najida]

It’s absolutely a pain to work on allergy meal plans in a HC setting...but again, the simpler the better. So far no one has had a reaction. And yeah, read every label of every thing you eat.

[gracesdad]

What’s wrong with Indian restaurants? Pretty tasty stuff there.

[najida]

Which has nothing to do with the age of the mothers.....or this mother (which appears to have started having her kids in her late 20’s early 30’s).

[the OlLine Rebel]

Have you been watching Penn & Teller?

LOL

[najida]

I love Indian Restaurants!

Honestly, I like any place where I don’t have to cook or wash the dishes....not that I wash dishes usually anyhow........

[the OlLine Rebel]

You have Celiac Disease? I’ve read a bit about that, incidentally with all my digestive problems. Of course, I’ve had it suggested that maybe I have Celiac; but mostly it’s really upper GI.

[antiRepublicrat]

Yeah, but peanut allergies are so bad that you can die from eating a cookie made in the same factory that a peanut butter cookie was made.

The point is that I bought a whole bag of peanuts themselves. I don't need to be told they were processed on machines that process peanuts. There needs to be a sanity check in there somewhere.

[weegee]

Everyone who ate carrots in the 19th Century died. I hope that we have healthier carrots today.

[Born Conservative]

Personally, I think many of the food allergies are caused by the combination vaccines they are giving children these days.

A FOOD allergy caused by VACCINES? Which one; the dreaded strawberry peanut vaccine? /end sarc

[CDHart]

I got taken in once by the chemical name for water. But I don't know if it was you that posted it, or someone else.

Carolyn

[nhoward14]

I have seen the Penn and Teller show, however chemistry and engineering majors have been amusing themselves for years by scaring the idiot political science students about water. P&T just decided to film it.

[frogjerk]

What’s wrong with Indian restaurants? Pretty tasty stuff there.

I am a meat eater.

[najida]

Probably it’s a bag that is printed prior to the labeling. IOW, almonds, cashews etc are all bagged in the same plant. They get the same base bag. Then the labels go on and Peanuts gets the same warning as Almonds and Cashews.

Does that make sense?

[goodnesswins]

An “allergy” to me is a symptom of an immune system problem....I often wonder what else the allergy sufferer is ingesting....how much sugar? How much carbs? I say this as someone who “had” allergies....

[the OlLine Rebel]

It’s amazing how much crap already IS on these food packages. It wasn’t enough to have every damn kind of nutrient info on there, but now they have warnings about peanuts. Soon they’ll have warnings about every single chemical used in the plant.

And then when the packages get bigger to accomodate all this shi-ite, and the maker has to charge more just pay for the package, these same (communist) ninnies will wail about how “Big Food” is CHARGING too much.....