[lace-chat] food allergies:)

2004-10-27 Thread Allan+Yvonne Farrell
A dietitian was once addressing a large audience in Chicago. The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining. Chinese food is loaded with MSG. Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of

[lace-chat] Food Allergies

2003-08-25 Thread Helen Bell
My son used to be lactose intolerant as a baby and toddler. We discovered this when he was 6 months old, on my very first Mother's Day (when we also had a guest from Oz staying with us that weekend!), and he couldn't get down any regular formula, without gagging. I tried changing nipples and

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2003-08-24 Thread Maxine D
As to food allergies etc, how many of these people with allergies were not breast fed? My son was exclusively breast fed for 5-6 months, and then was not given dairy products for some months after that, but he soon showed signs of a milk allergy. It wasn't until some years later that we

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2003-08-23 Thread Jean Peach
People have had allergies for generations, my MIL if she was alive now would be 109, allergic to dairy products, DH who is 67 is allergic to milk, is able to eat one egg a week. Youngest daughter is allergic to more dairy products than either of her father or grandmother. Plus can not drink wine.

Re: [lace-chat] Food Allergies - how 'real' ?

2003-08-23 Thread Toni Hawryluk
- food 'additives' - plastic food containers leaching ?what? into the food - GE/GM *crap* poisoning foods that we were *used* to . . . I don't think it's quite as simple as that... I was told (way back in my childhood) that allergies (food or otherwise) are genetic -- that we pass them

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2003-08-22 Thread A+Y Farrell
My son has a tree nut allergy, and they crop up in the darndest things. Thankfully, here in the US, all ingredients are labeled, so I spend forever in the stores, reading the ingredients on food for either tree nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc) or mushrooms (which tend to be hidden in the

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2003-08-22 Thread BAChojnacki
In a message dated 8/22/03 4:48:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My DD2 is allergic to soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorants, sorbelene, chlorine all adhesive tapes and Band-Aids as well as surgical gloves, or more likely the chemical they use to stop the sticking together, even unpowdered

Re: [lace-chat] Food Allergies

2003-08-22 Thread A+Y Farrell
My DD2 is allergic to soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorants, sorbelene, chlorine all adhesive tapes and Band-Aids as well as surgical gloves, or more likely the chemical they use to stop the sticking together, even unpowdered gloves. My husband is also allergic to surgical gloves, especially

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2003-08-22 Thread Ruth Budge
My daughter is a veterinary surgeon. After she'd spent five years studying at university and several years in practice, we discovered that, amongst other things she is allergic to: soap, the disinfectant used to clean contaminated surfaces in the practice, the powder in surgical gloves, the

Re: [lace-chat] Food Allergies

2003-08-22 Thread Toni Hawryluk
Question : how many allergy cases does it take before consumers start thinking : - food 'additives' - plastic food containers leaching ?what? into the food - GE/GM *crap* poisoning foods that we were *used* to . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the

[lace-chat] Food Allergies

2003-08-19 Thread Elizabeth Ligeti
Reading of the need for gluten free foods - I am allergic to cheese. I have been, all my life. I am very ill if I have any - to be polite - just say it is a severe case of travel sickness!!! Almost everything has cheese in it these days! The plaster it on vegies, and into crackers - all over