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Sqwertz[_25_]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:25:15 -0800 (PST), wrote:

> How come when I was growing up, I was born in 1965, you never heard of
> a single kid who was allergic to peanuts, no one was lactose
> intolerant, and no one was allergic to gluten, yet alone know what
> gluten was unless you were a baker?

Because they didn't have the Internet. The world was much smaller.

Some mothers want their children to be "special' in some way or
another. I was allergic to shellfish and had to drink goat milk.
it those were real allergies at the time.

-sw