Great Post!
Posted on 03/08/2019 7:26:50 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Did your grandparents have food allergies? Mine sure didn’t. A stark comparison to the growing epidemic of food allergies, worsening with every generation.
So why didn’t your grandparents have food allergies? It’s really quite simple…
1) THEY ATE SEASONAL REAL FOOD. Food came from farms and small markets in the early 1900’s, and because food preservatives were not widely used yet, food was fresh. Because of the lack of processed food, their diets were nutrient dense, allowing them to get the nutrition they needed from their food.
For babies, breast milk was valued and it was always in season.
2) THEY DIDN’T DIET, AND PLAY RESTRICTIVE GAMES WITH THEIR BODY AND METABOLISM. THEY ATE FOOD WHEN FOOD WAS AVAILABLE. Our grandparents did not fall victim to fad diets, food marketing, calorie counting, and other detrimental dieting habits that are popular today (in part because the marketing infrastructure didn’t exist yet). Because of this, they had a healthy metabolism, and ate according to their body’s needs and cravings.
3) THEY COOKED FOOD AT HOME, USING TRADITIONAL PREPARATION METHODS FROM SCRATCH. Buying processed food was not an option, and eating out was a rare luxury. Lucky for our grandparents, these habits actually increased their health.
4) THEY DIDN’T EAT GMOS, FOOD ADDITIVES, SYNTHETIC HERBICIDES, AND THICKENERS. Food was not yet treated with pesticides, herbicides, food additives, antibiotics and hormones to help increase crop yields, preserve shelf life and pad the pockets of food producers in the early 1900’s at the expense of the consumer’s health.
5) THEY ATE THE WHOLE ANIMAL, WHICH INCLUDED MINERAL-RICH BONE BROTHS AND ORGAN MEATS. Animal bones were saved or bought to make broths and soups, and organ meats always had a special place at the dinner table. These foods were valued for their medicinal properties, and never went to waste.
6) THEY DIDN’T GO TO THE DOCTOR WHEN THEY FELT SICK OR TAKE PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS. DOCTOR VISITS WERE SAVED FOR ACCIDENTAL INJURIES AND LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS. When they got a fever, they waited it out. When they felt sick, they ate soups, broths, and got lots of rest. They did not have their doctor or nurse on speed dial, and they trusted the body’s natural healing process a whole lot more than we do today. Their food was medicine, whether they realized it or not.
7) THEY SPENT LOTS OF TIME OUTSIDE. Our grandparents didn’t have the choice to stay inside and play on their phones, computers and gaming systems. They played on the original play-station: bikes, swing-sets and good ol’ mother nature!
AND WHAT DO THESE THINGS HAVE TO DO WITH FOOD ALLERGIES? Nutrition affects EVERY cell in our body. The health of our cells is dependent on diet and lifestyle. Cells create tissues, tissues create organs, and we are made up of a system of organs. If your nutrition is inadequate, the integrity of each cell, tissue and organ in your body will suffer, thus you may be MORE sensitive to certain foods.
Better not say that on FB....................
All good points. I would add one. Occasionally one would miss a meal or two because of work demands or lack of food or whatever. Intermediate fasting is a healer of the body and stomach. Our bodies were built for feast or famine. Today we only feast. This is why Type 2 diabetes is rampant today and rare then.
8) BECAUSE THEY DIED FROM FOOD ALLERGIES BEFORE THEY COULD BECOME GRANDPARENTS.
Keep in mind the person writing this is completely making this all up.
And also people died from life threatening allergies.
Anaphylaxis killed those who were that sensitive so they wouldn’t reach adulthood anyways.
As evidenced by the steady decline in life expectancy over the generations.
Premature babies also have much higher rates of survival. Missing that last month in the womb affects the immune system. In my grandparents era, my son and I would have died during his delivery. Food allergies are annoying, but a trade off I gladly accept.
Great Post!
Tough I’m sure.
Life expectancy for these grizzled old codgers?
Not all of it.
There is some basis for fact in some of it.
Breast feeding is protective against food allergies to a degree.
Living in a too clean environment keeps the immune system from learning how to fight disease properly. Early exposure to dirt and germs trains the immune system to NOT go into a hypersensitivity reaction over harmless substances.
In my family, cancer took most of them out in their 60s.
And usually there was little advance notice.
Some of them you found out at the funeral.
We live longer. With that said the processed food with all the additives do cause problems. Feeling tired all the time? Probably high fructose corn syrup and msg in the food.
Too many fat people. They are eating food with the same additives that are used to fatten cattle.
It is called Thinning the Heard.
Because they didn’t call them food allergies back then. Things were “too rich for me”, or “didn’t agree with me”, or if you were uncouth “gave me gas”.
I remember my grandparents and the hired hands they had working for them. Their diets were exactly what the “experts” say is killing us now and most lived into their 80s and 90s. One of my doctors told me about a study a doctor friend of his had ran. Took 3 sets of chickens and put them all on a high fat diet. Then put one group on no exercise, put one on moderate exercise and put one on hard labor. The group on hard labor outlived both other groups by a substantial margin.
Wow. This article describes my lifestyle almost to a T. Maybe that’s why I’m 65, have no health insurance, and am doing great. I live in allergy country and have no food allergies that I know of. And I love clearing and working on my 32 acres every chance I get.
I joke with people it’s because I have the constitution of a Buzzard because, as a kid, I used to impress my friends by eating dry dog food. :)
But I DO think there is something to this.
BTW, I’m on OMAD now and it’s changing my energy level and how I look at food. I love it.
OMAD - One Meal a Day
It has been argued that plagues have culled the herd of weak DNA - and now our modern medicine is allowing weak DNA to survive.
“Breast feeding is protective against food allergies to a degree.”
That’s about the only one.
Provide references to any of the other.
And even that is sketchy. Breast feeding among the population claiming food allergies today I think is higher than in the past.
In fact, now that were talking about it, perhaps the extra nutrients and consistency of delivery from bottle feeding and formula contributed to stronger immune systems developed early and functioning over a lifetime.
Or *choking to death on a peanut caught in the wind pipe*.
Notice that you NEVER hear about that any more.
I wouldn't be surprised that all those cases of *choking to death on a peanut* was actually anaphylaxis closing up the airway and they just didn't know it.
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