Posted on 03/08/2019 7:26:50 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
No I am not. BTW aliens are fattening up earthlings.
BS
All this crap - peanuts, gluten, etc. - is a fad.
It’s another snowflake mockery.
I think that you are definitely on the right path with this one. But I would add that most of what people are claiming that they are allergic to are really not true allergies... it is a misnomer. There are some foods that their body may have a difficult time digesting because their gut bacteria is not well equipped to handle the task.
People who have lost their ability to drink milk or eat ice cream or other milk based products are called lactose intolerant. They are typically are not allergic to milk, although there are some who can be. Basically everyone starts out with the ability to digest milk. But if you cut milk completely out of your diet, after a few years you won't have the ability to do a good job of digesting milk products any more. That is because the bacteria needed to digest milk eventually dies out.
Milk products can then be gradually reintroduced to your diet, but it takes longer to be able to tolerate it again these days after you have eliminated it from your diet because most milk is pasteurized so that there is very little good or bad bacteria in it. It is the some of the good bacteria found in unpasteurized milk that help you to digest it. These days people who have problems digesting milk can buy a “probiotic” product that will help them. The probiotics are cultured bacteria that help to reestablish good digestion of sugars found in milk in this example. (There is also a difference between milk for cows and milk from other species including our own mothers.)
My wife has a serious food allergy to seafood... it makes her swell up and stop breathing. It is like kids who have an allergic reaction to peanuts. But vast majority of those claiming to have allergies to various foods don't have any type of true allergic reaction at all. Most haven't even visited a quack allergist of which their are legions these days, they just make this stuff up as they go along.
The most entertaining subset we know are all the people claiming to be allergic to gluten. There is a very small group that actually have been diagnosed with celiac disease which is a very serious autoimmune disorder, but in our experience the vast majority of those on gluten free diets are hangars-on who have never been diagnosed by an actual doctor. But if you go long enough without eating any gluten there is a good chance that you will eventually lose your ability to digest it.
The primary reason people have difficulty eating many foods is because of a lack of variety in their diet. The good bacteria in our guts that is responsible for good digestion is not well supported by the typical narrow diet of processed foods that people eat these days. And the processing of foods also kills off many of the good bacteria that we would normally be getting from the foods we eat. This is not completely a bad thing because those bacteria also cause food to spoil early in many cases. But it all contributes to people who lack the ability to digest foods as well as our ancestors.
“Some speculate that over-immunization/vaccination is also a leading cause.”
Some who speculate are idiots.
“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,”
They sure as hell did play games. Look into Graham Crackers history. Look into that nutball Mr Kellogg at the turn of the century (1900). He was having people eat his corn flakes to prevent masturbation. And everyone started eating cornflakes for “health”. There were indeed dozens of weirdo fads despite the rose colored glasses we look bank on them with.
Then there was that other gem about not going to the doctor except for accidents. It was because there was nearly nothing a doctor of that era could do. In the Spanish flu epidemic part of the reason so many people died was that the standard treatment doctors were trying was a regimen of 16,000 Mg per day of aspirin. Attacks the fever ya know! Of course an entire bottle of aspirin per day also made your clotting factors zero out and you drowned in your own blood.
There are a few good points in there, but this is mostly nostalgia based volkish drivel.
They also died about 20 years less than we do. Dropping dead of diseases and food poisoning we don’t even give a second thought to.
Spare me. There are a few things we can learn form them, but food generally isn’t one of them.
For tomatoes it’s a matter of letting the things mature versus pick early and ship.
Well...first you get them little stripped uniforms and leg irons. Then.....
Both of my grandfathers ate eggs, bacon, sausage, fried potatoes, foods cooked/fried in lard and other non-pc food. They also chewed tobacco. Both lived until age 95.
This article is a mountain of horse manure.
They used nastier pesticides on crops in the past than we use now
It turned about 1977. Dr. Jason Fung explains it all. He uses controlled studies from publications like JAMA and NEJM to illustrate his reasoning.
I don’t think it’s immunization, I think it’s the overuse of cleansers in the home.
I also wonder how much of the allergy boom is that we’ve become so pushy as a society. People aren’t allowed to not like stuff anymore. Got a friend who doesn’t like cheese, just not into it. But he’s taken to saying he’s lactose intolerant because when he declines thing with cheese because he doesn’t like it people are all “but you’ll like this”, if he says he’s lactose intolerant they leave him alone. We all have foods we don’t like, but in our modern world it’s way easier to be “allergic”.
You are absolutely right. Refrigeration was not available to large segments of the population until the 1920s and 1930s. People canned food to preserve them. If they didn't boil things long enough to kill all the bad bacteria or there was a problem with their technique, or the jars didn't have a good seal, very bad things sometimes happened. It was not that uncommon to find entire families dead from botulism and other fatal forms of food poisoning after they ate bad canned meat or other canned products. People always talk about how bad preservatives are. But eating canned foods before the miracle preservatives we have available these days existed could be a chancy adventure. This is not to mention the lead based solder they used to seal "tin" cans back in the day which leached into the food and caused all sorts of health problems.
Actually many of the pesticides they use these days are nastier and less effective than the pesticides available in the past. You can actually eat a couple tablespoons of DDT with no immediate issues, but a drop of malathion on your finger can kill you. The first casualties after DDT was banned were farm workers.
You have a point there. Other than being incredibly annoying in some situations... it is almost a badge of honor to claim you are allergic to something these days.
I have a friend who claims that he is allergic to just about everything, yet he eats ground up silver “for his health”. He is always sickly looking. I think that their might be a connection.
All very good points.
Time outdoors means higher Vitamin D levels, which help to remedy allergies. Also, rural air contains more terpenes, which help to reduce bronchial inflamation. And greater exposure to dirt and minor bacteria train the immune system against allergic over reaction.
Oh, please.
And our grandparents, and theirs before them, died! They died in droves.
Yellow Fever.
Small pox.
Spanish Influenza.
Diabetes and cancer were 100% fatal.
They were cripples, malnourished and got scurvy in Northern latitudes in Winter or at sea for long periods.
Brain trauma killed, as well as any lacerations to the abdomen, especially before Louis Pasteur.
Food was sold as is, and often was rotted, and infected with various pathogens.
People tried not to drink water, as that was a vector for cholera, dysentery, typhoid.
Penicillin didn’t even get prescribed until WWII.
Polio wasn’t inoculated for until the 1950s.
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we all got measles, mumps and chicken pox. Occasionally, some kids were sterilized or even died from complications.
And don’t get me started on world hunger. When was the last BIG famine? Ethiopia, 1984?
Before that, thousands died from starvation every year, and sometimes, every couple of years, MILLIONS would.
Even when I was a teenager in the early-mid 70s, a kid getting leukemia was just about a death sentence for them. Had one friend in school get it, he died. We wept when we heard he had, months before he passed.
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