"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> Hello All!
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> This report in the Telegraph seems to indicate that the British are just
> as worried as Americans.
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...-epidemic.html
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> "One in five Britons is now labouring under the misapprehension that they
> are suffering from a food allergy"
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> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
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> Email, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

I remember growing up with two choices, take it or leave it. Of course
there were those who had 'special needs' or 'couldn't have this or that' but
it seems so .....I don't know.......in fashion, I guess, to have a food
allergy, intolerance, or what have you. It has always been there, just the
person with the intolerance had to deal with it not the rest of society
pussyfooting around to avoid offending the delicate sensibilities. Now, no
peanut butter for whole classes because Junior once choked on a peanut and
he puffed up and his eyes watered. Before, Junior just stayed away from the
peanuts....not that Tom, Dick and Harry couldn't eat them anymore.

Just my 2 cents.
-ginny

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>
> I remember growing up with two choices, take it or leave it. Of course
> there were those who had 'special needs' or 'couldn't have this or that' but
> it seems so .....I don't know.......in fashion, I guess, to have a food
> allergy, intolerance, or what have you.

I think that folks are starting to realize that there is such a thing as
food intolerance. I was told there's no such thing as a wheat
intolerance and so for many years I had chronic indigestion and other
symptoms and I simply thought they were what normal is. But eventually
I determined by experiment what happens when I avoid wheat and what
happens when I don't. The difference is huge, so I decided that wheat
is toxic for me. I avoid it. But fortunately my intolerance involves
indigestion and other assorted symptoms not failing to breath and dying.

> It has always been there, just the
> person with the intolerance had to deal with it not the rest of society
> pussyfooting around to avoid offending the delicate sensibilities. Now, no
> peanut butter for whole classes because Junior once choked on a peanut and
> he puffed up and his eyes watered. Before, Junior just stayed away from the
> peanuts....not that Tom, Dick and Harry couldn't eat them anymore.

Agreed. I hardly even like to mention my wheat intolerance. Folks
aren't supposed to go out of their way to take care of my specific and
bizzare individual needs. I can find food on my own pretty much any
time even if folks pay no attention to the matter.

The comment on suffering because folks can't eat specific foods - I
don't suffer because I avoid wheat. I suffer if I *don't* avoid wheat.