What about Barack Omuppet?
Are you allergic to him?
Posted on 01/10/2009 9:19:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Your kid doesn't have an allergy to nuts. Your kid has a parent who needs to feel special. Your kid also spends recess running and screaming, "No! Stop! Don't rub my head with peanut butter!"
Yes, a tiny number of kids have severe peanut allergies that cause anaphylactic shock, and all their teachers should be warned, handed EpiPens and given a really expensive gift at Christmas. But unless you're a character on "Heroes," genes don't mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don't cause 25% of parents to believe that their kids have food allergies, when 4% do. Yuppiedom does.
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Parents may think they are doing their kids a favor by testing them and being hyper-vigilant about monitoring what they eat, but it's not cool to freak kids out. Only 20% of kids who get a positive allergy test result need treatment. And a 2003 study showed that kids who were told they were allergic to peanuts had more anxiety and felt more physically restricted than if they had diabetes. "It's anxiety-producing to imagine that having a snack in kindergarten could be deadly," Christakis said. Remember, this is a demographic so easily panicked that, equipped with only circles and dots, it invented an inoculation to cooties.
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So bring back nuts to schools. If parents need to panic about a food, at least go with seafood allergies. Those fish sticks are disgusting.
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What about Barack Omuppet?
Are you allergic to him?
I have sensitivity to various things, but none of them are life-threatening. It's more of a quality of life thing: if I drink this, I get a headache or a runny nose. If I eat that, I'll have some digestive issues. And it's not absolute: I can tolerate small to moderate amounts, but too much will overload my system. The threshold varies according to how I'm doing overall.
I think the allergies have always been there, and the prevalence hasn't changed much. What has changed is the medical profession's ability to recognize the potential and test for it. Then predictably, some people overreact.
No no no.....look like a couple of half pecans, I guess.....just a joke..
I love those things. However, for three million Americans, the allergy is a pretty serious issue. Granted, that’s one percent of the population.
I do too. I wonder what they’re made of?
Mrs. R2 will NOT eat any fish. Not fried, nor broiled, nor baked, nor nothing. No shrimp, no oysters, no clam chowder...
If it has anything to do with fish - forget it. Ain’t gonna eat it.
But she will eat fish sticks.
Which brings me back to the question.... I wonder what they’re made of.
You mean sea kitten sticks?
Just wait until they discover 18% of the population is allergic to second hand medical marijuana smoke, leaves and roaches. Heads will explode.
Step 1. Catch fish.
Step 2. Remove sticks.
Step 3. Cook and eat.
Oh yeah. I forgot.
Mmmmm...fish sticks!
Next thing you know those will be banned too due to fish allergies or PETA.
Aren't they calling fish, sea kittens these days. Then it would be cat fish sticks - LOL...now I'm getting hungry...time for lunch!
I think I'll have a big peanut butter sandwich on some gluten free bread with a tall glass of lactose free milk! (Hey - at least I am not allergic to peanuts!)
I agree with this article on several levels. First of all, telling kids that they are allergic to something only exaggerates the reactions. Second allergy testing is not exactly fool proof, some sensitive people react to their own histamine, rendering the tests useless. For instance, I can write my name on the inside of my arm with my finger nail and raise a red welt.
Then there’s this anecdotal story:
When my kid’s were young, and I was teaching Bible school, I greeted a young mother at the door, as she dropped off her daughter, and laughingly said to her, “Oh, I see that you’ve been swimming.” When she came back to pick up her daughter, the woman asked how I knew that she had been swimming. I said because you have the rash around your eyes from the latex goggles. She was astonished because she worked for the local allergy specialist who had been treating the swimmers and yet he could not identify her allergy with all his testing. He told her that she was allergic to nail polish and must have been rubbing her eyes.
Some things it’s best not to wonder about:’) I like fried fish sticks with mac and cheese.
Nuts! Hot nuts!
Anybody here wanna buy my nuts?
Selling nuts, hot nuts
I’ve got nuts for sale
Now you see that man all dressed in black
His nuts is so hot he keep ‘em in a sack
He’s got nuts, hot nuts,
You buy ‘em from the peanut man
Cat fish sticks...I like that lol
Aw Nuts!
The FR link in post # 5 is off its nut.
The BBC link is ok but click here to see the FR thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152312/posts
That's the first time I heard that one!
And yes, I too am severely allegic to him! Every time I am exposed to him my skin starts to crawl, my brain feels like it is going to explode and I get the urge to vomit!
Yum.
Where did you go to school?! Where I went to school (GA, in the 1960's,) if a kid forgot his lunch, the S.O.P. was... forcing him to sit there and watch the other kids eat their lunches.
((Those nuns were really mean!))
Regards,
Soylent Green.
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