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My sister has a variety of food alergies, when she was being tested, they took her onto a diet of potato, Lamb and peas, nothing else, for three days. this they reckon was the least alergic food you can have, then they started adding single foods to the mix one at a time till she fell ill

They reckoned that the lamb/potatos/peas diet was the lowest level of  likelihood alergy meal that you could get and still bre medically ok.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 09:07:49 PM EST
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Lamb, potatoes and peas are OK, in their place. And quite tasty, but not as a forever-diet. The process of finding out what you can and can't eat is hit-or-miss, and often stomach-upsetting.

I misspoke. Gluten intolerance isn't really an allergy; it's just that some peoples' systems can't handle the whatever-it-is protein. I do reasonably well except, like In Wales, I have to avoid fast-food places and especially places where they might buy some of their food prepared from a larger supplier--such as the soup bases used in Chinese restaurants. Many of those have MSG, by the way, no matter what the restaurant says.

Wheat is such an industrial crop that it's in everything, often disguised as something else. Or included as "natural flavoring" or some other weasel wording. Hydrolized soy protein is another nasty term. The more processed the food, generally the less safe it is.

I've read that gluten intolerance supposedly is more prevalent in people of northwestern European ancestry, which makes for interesting considerations of how much, say, beer is drunk in that part of the world and what some of the chronic health problems are there and here.

I do like your sig line, by the way.

by Mnemosyne on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 09:21:43 PM EST
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she had three months of that, with the odd change thrown in for testing purposes before they came to the conclusion it was something else that she had.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Aug 6th, 2008 at 09:43:20 PM EST
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