"BlueBrooke" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:19:48 -0800 (PST), "
> > wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> That is certainly how it works around here. You need a label for your
> kid, and "strong, healthy kid" isn't one of them. My son ate a lot of
> dirt. Maybe there is something to that. :-)

My kids played outside in the dirt. My oldest son has developed allergies
to all sorts of things as an adult. My youngest son doesn't even have hay
fever.

Ms P