Food Alleges

I watched a show a few nights ago about the rise in food alleges today.
Peanuts seem to be a big one that you hear a lot about but there are many others.

While there is no know reason or cure for the sharp rise in food alleges in resent history some researchers are blaming it on how clean we are today. We live in houses with filtered air. We take a bath daily. Lots of soap has antibacterial agents added to it. We drink filtered and bottled water. Our food has preservatives added to it.

In short rather than letting our body deal with bacteria and build up a immunity we confront bacteria before we ever come into contact with it. This is causing our bodies to reject food that was once thought safe to eat.

Your thoughts on the subject...?.

at some point china will be able to take us over with an open jar of peanut butter LOL

Probably right, as a kid growing up on a dairy farm my family drank a lot of non pasteurized milk too...

Or they will say some thing to hurt our feelings, and we will curl up in a corner.

If we find we are sensitive to a certain allergen and stay away from it we will have a higher reaction to that allergen if we are accidentally exposed to it after not being exposed to it for awhile. For me it is gluten.

When I was growing up we had an old bachelor neighbor, born in 1895 who took a bath possibly twice a year and he never washed his clothes. He claimed washing clothes wore them out. He drank from an open well and the quality of the food he ate was questionable. I was accustomed to being in his house without plumbing but when a friend went in with me once the friend about threw up. I do not ever remember him being sick and he lived to be 98 years old. The neighbors across the road from us were not quite that bad but they werent as clean as others and they too were never sick. So yes I do think we live too clean. I dont think we need hand sanitizers in every doorway and every restroom but thats just my opinion.

Agree!

Vito

I agree completely!

Too clean, too many antibiotics, antibacterial soap, prescriptions for everything.

A couple things are happening, we, especially the kids, are way over medicated. taken to the Dr. for every runny nose and skinned knee.

Parents expect some action from the Dr. If they don't leave with an injection and hand full of prescriptions, they will find a Dr that will do so.

Then add to that the increase in antiviral and anti bacterial cleaners.

The germs are under attack! So they fight back, mutate to survive the chemicals. That's where the "super bugs" came from. They're mostly found in hospitals where sick people and the drugs/chemicals that fight them are the most concentrated.

Today's kids come from the womb already medicated with antibiotics, raised in a sterile environment, in an apartment high rise, or suburbia, no contact with farm animals, dirt, raw food of any kind...

No wonder the real world makes them sick!

I cringe when I see those hand sanitizers all over the place.

All the people who use them are doing is destroying their own immune systems.

My wife bakes all our bread with only 6 ingredients. Read the list of stuff in store bought bread... Can't pronounce most of the ingredients. Part of the problem is we don't eat simple ,good food like the good old days.....

I take food allegies very seriously. When I was growing up, my mother would "disappear" into the bedroom sometimes all day or a couple of days. Migrain headaches. She had them from the time she was a child.
It was not until she was 60 did she find out food alleries were the primary cause. Aged meats, leavend bread, cheese, chocolate, caffine, nuts etc. and many others. When she stayed away from those items she had no migrains. She lived to 85.
My youngest sister, age 66, has suffered migrains for years. I pestered her for several years to get a review of her foods.
Yup. Some caused her to have migrains. She still gets migrains from time to time but readily recognizes that she got off track on foods to avoid.
Fortunately for me, only my tastebuds reject foods. Just my beltline complains. LOL

Yep look on the label of any processed food and it'll be loaded with chemicals and that doesn't list the chemicals the food was exposed to on the farm,while in storage etc.

Can't be good for folks!

I?m pretty sure you are right. We in the USA are sanitizing our selves to death. I see parents get out hand sanitizers and wipe their kids everytime someone touches them. The label says kills 98% of the bacteria or something like that. Well that leaves the bad a$$ 2% left with no completion. So they just get bigger & badder as time goes on. Don?t know if I?m right or wrong but it has crossed my mine more than once.

My oldest daughter is an oncology nurse. She and her family are also hobby farmers with goats, chickens and a few beef cows. One of the doctors she works for has 2 young sons who are always sick. She tells him his sons need to spend a couple days bare foot in her barn. He doesn't know how to answer that.

I read an article a while back that said one of the healthiest things a person can do is put their hands and feet in good organic soil often.

I live on a farm and dirt is my middle name most of the time. But about 15 years ago I developed an allergy to peanut butter. And, I ate tons of the stuff growing up. Explain that, Lucy.

(quoted from post at 19:10:33 09/09/19) I watched a show a few nights ago about the rise in food alleges today.
Peanuts seem to be a big one that you hear a lot about but there are many others.

While there is no know reason or cure for the sharp rise in food alleges in resent history some researchers are blaming it on how clean we are today. We live in houses with filtered air. We take a bath daily. Lots of soap has antibacterial agents added to it. We drink filtered and bottled water. Our food has preservatives added to it.

In short rather than letting our body deal with bacteria and build up a immunity we confront bacteria before we ever come into contact with it. This is causing our bodies to reject food that was once thought safe to eat.

Your thoughts on the subject...?.

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Oh, heck, let's go on to "gluten intolerance" and "black mold"!

Less than 2% of the population is affected by severe food allergies, gluten intolerance or black mold.

It's got to be tough to be in that 2% X 3.

But, nowadays, that 6% dictates how the remaining 94% of us are told to live!

OK, I'll go along with being too clean. Heck when most of us were young we went to town/county fairs, often staged in some farmers pasture. Kids dropped stuff, picked it up, brushed the dirt off and ate it to no ill effect. Kids today die from that.

As far as the allergies go? Don't think that where or how clean you live has much to do with it. One of my grand daughters lives up the hill here on the farm. Plays outside in the dirt. Allergic to carrots of all things. And it don't matter store bought or raise in the garden with no chemicals applied. All you have to do is rub one on her arm and she get hives. So thanks to her I don't have to eat carrots anymore!

Rick

My neighbor's young daughter went through a peanut desensitization clinic.
Her final test was to eat a peanut butter sandwich. She was able to eat
it with no problems.

Liver

I said that many times as a kid. Very few people believed it then....[i:db1c02e439]especially[/i:db1c02e439] coming from a kid.

I worked with a man who would have
difficulty breathing if he eat anything
that had a banana in it.

His allergies started as a kid, long
before antibacterial soap.

Worked with a woman who said she gave her
husband a kiss of death. She took a pill
that her husband was highly allergic to.
She gave husband a good night kiss. He
stopped breathing, rushed to hospital.
Antibacterial soap had nothing to do with
his allergenic reaction. Husband work at
Elli Lilly lab where they made the pill.
He couldn't work there after he became
sensitive to pill.

I think there's many reasons people
become allergic to foods. We could get
rich if we had all the answers.

Let's jump on the California's band wagon
and blame Roundup.

A very interesting and complex topic. Not only are we always surrounded by bacteria, but we are constantly having to deal with new bacteria. Because bacteria are constantly mutating, and changing. Some will change in benign ways that will have no adverse effects on us,while others will cause devastating effects and possibly become unaffected by antibiotics.
I do agree to a point that a certain amount of exposure to some of the thousands of bacteria we confront each day, does strengthen our natural immune system but, no one can develop immunity to ecoli bacteria, so don?t start thinking not washing your hands will make you healthy.
When it comes to food allergies, my guess is many of the plants we grow for food are different from the crops we grew 100 years ago. We grow different wheat, different corn and probably different peanuts. And food doesn?t spoil like it used to , thanks to a whole list of preservatives.

Bruce they did touch on the subject that our crops are hybrid today.
I purposely omitted that as not to get the roundup crowd riled up.

Political correctness has the same bad effect. People these days are too sensitive to EVERYTHING.

I'll just slink over to my safe space til I feel better.

While there is no know reason or cure for the sharp rise in food alleges in resent history some researchers are blaming it on how clean we are today.

Where is our FDA doing about it?

Is there a cure? Look at how drugs are regulated. They must pass clinical tests before FDA will approve them.

What if there is a natural cure that drug companies can't make a buck off them?

About a year ago Indiana made CBD oil legal. Many people think CBD had THC in it and it's a happy oil that you get high on. For me it's a God sent. There might be a small amount of THC. 0.3% so for those who have to pass drug tests I feel sorry for. CBD hasn't been tested and no DR can prescribe it for general purposes.

I will say, it has made my life better, less arthritis pain, lowers my blood pressure, sleep better, and has cut down on my allergies. I'm very allergic to grass mold. After I mow, I use CBD.

My point is how many other natural cures may be out there for other allergies and our FDA requires drug companies to spends major bucks on research before a DR can write an Rx? A drug company won't spends millions if it can't make a buck.

Also there is Homeopathic medicine scuffed at by many people but I have witnessed the results in some of my animals.Right now I have a Rat Terrier that had a bad case of Lymes disease.the Homeopathic treatment has been the only thing that has helped him and bought him back to good health.We give him 3 pills a day and he's fine quit the pills for a few days and he starts to go back health wise.

Both my kids have food allergies. One is peanuts, tree nuts, and raw egg (didnt realize how much stuff had THAT in it), my 2 year old daughter is allergic to sesame. No idea where it came from. Neither of us had food allergies. We live like we were raised. I feel bad because I have a cousin that has had a peanut allergy for years before we learned my son did, and I would joke about it some. Now that I have a kid I see how serious it is. My boy broke out in hives one night, no idea why. We finally traced it down to icecream we ate at Moms house. Called the manufacturer and found out all their flavors are boxed on the same line. So they must have ran peanut butter icecream before running our flavor through. How much peanut possibly could have gotten into our icecream?? Cant be much. So then I think, what if ever got a lick of peanut butter? My wife takes the majority of the burden and worry. It's always in the back of her mind. She's terrified for him starting school next year.

My daughter is part of a study at Johns Hopkins. Their theory now is exposure to the allergien is good, and early exposure is better. Since her older brother has peanut allergies she is at an increased risk to develop it. So from 4 months old she's been eating x amount of peanut powder a week, and they check her blood periodically to see her allergy levels. Her blood shows she is allergic but so far she has no symptoms so that's encouraging. Hopkins also got both kids out of a dairy allergy. Both would turn red anywhere milk touched. Even if something had dairy cooked into it. Hopkins gave us a schedule to follow, starting with so many oz of baked milk per week, then stovetop cooked milk products, then cheeses, ect.. Now both can eat any milk product no trouble. We're going to see a dr soon that does the same type of thing for nut allergies. His theory is that it's your body's immune system wired wrong. He starts you off on foods similar to what you're allergic to and builds from there. We've heard good things so we're hopeful.

The only thing I dont understand about the early exposure is better theory, is I thought that we did that with my son. My wife ate peanuts and mixed nuts while pregnant and breast feeding. Then it's a few months of baby food, they eat what you can get in them. Once he started eating real food is when we started seeing allergies so I do t know what we could have changed.

Allergies are known to be aggravated by elevated levels of sugar in the body. Allergies that would have been just incidental and have negligible effect are made much worse by sugar. Does anybody know anyone who gets too much sugar? One can of soda will do it. Cancers are also given a huge boost by sugar. Baked goods turn into sugar within minutes of being ingested.

Sure makes you feel better working in the garden!

Problem is, that if all those extra ingredients (preservatives} wern't in them, lawsuits would bankrupt the makers. Lawyers will sooner or later bankrupt every business in the world if the courts continue to award outrageous sums of money to individuals who are irresponsible about using things. Just my thoughts.----Loren

I can buy fresh made bread with only basic ingredients at the local Mennonite store never heard of them having any lawsuits.

I have no choice but to look for alternative meds. If there's a side effect to an Rx med, I'll have it. I can't take over the counter anti inflammatory meds, stomach won't tolerate them.

I wish more money is spent on alternative meds to put end to big pharmacy's hold on drugs .

(quoted from post at 10:43:29 09/10/19) I have no choice but to look for alternative meds. If there's a side effect to an Rx med, I'll have it. I can't take over the counter anti inflammatory meds, stomach won't tolerate them.

I wish more money is spent on alternative meds to put end to big pharmacy's hold on drugs .

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George, every drug store that I go into as well as other types of stores have many feet of aisles of dietary supplements and alternative meds. It is a very big business.

(quoted from post at 10:43:29 09/10/19) I have no choice but to look for alternative meds. If there's a side effect to an Rx med, I'll have it. I can't take over the counter anti inflammatory meds, stomach won't tolerate them.

I wish more money is spent on alternative meds to put end to big pharmacy's hold on drugs .

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George, every drug store that I go into as well as other types of stores have many feet of aisles of dietary supplements and alternative meds. It is a very big business.