On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:19:48 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

>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.

Peanuts and soy were not used in nearly as many products as they are
now, so people were just not exposed to these things with the
frequency they are these days. Allergies arise with increased exposure
to an allergen.

And I knew about celiacs at least from the mid to late1960s, about the
time I was grown up enough to even be aware of such things. You
probably did not know an allergy from an asshole when you were a kid
in school.
>
>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 am not even going to take that paragraph apart. It is such a
mishmash of medical and scientific distortion that the few true grains
left are useless.
>
>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.

And I say you're full of shit. Seeing an anguished parent rush a kid
to the ER with an allergic reaction or suffer through raising a
troubled kid with ADHD, or watch one dealing with an autistic spectrum
child is not seeing anyone having a grand old time. Shame on you.
Really.

Boron