On Nov 18, 2:52*am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>
> So let me get this straight. *You are saying that when you were born in
> 1965, I never heard of food allergies? *Actually I did. *I was born in 1959.
> I was allergic to milk. *This came as no surprise to my mom because she
> herself was allergic to milk (as well as other things) and some of her
> brothers and sisters were as well.


I'm not denying that people had food allergies back then. It just
wasn't as prevalent as it is today. Out of the hundreds of kids I
went through school with there was not one case of someone being
allergic to peanuts, soy, gluten, etc. If someone had died because of
it you would have known it.

I believe part of the problem today, and others have speculated this
too, is people are too clean. They've also abused antibiotics and
they're always coming out with some new vaccine to fight the next
epidemic that's certainly going to wipe out a good chunk of the
population. Your body's immune system needs something to fight. When
there aren't any germs for it to fight it finds something else to
fight, like peanut proteins for example.

I do believe for many people it has become a badge of honor to say
that their kid suffers from some sort of ailment, whether it be a food
allergy, ADHD, autism, or something else.