Re: [lace-chat] Re: Food Allergies
Tamara P. Duvall wrote: I don't think it's quite as simple as that... I was told (way back in my childhood) that allergies (food or otherwise) are genetic -- that we pass them on, if not always in exactly the same form. If so, then they spread like a weed (sorry, I can't remember the English term... geometrical progression? when you have 1 in first generation, 2 in the second, 4 in the third, etc?). There is also another theory being tested in Switzerland, I think. The theory is that if we are protected from too many bugs when we are young, our immune system goes overboard when we have to face these bugs as an adult. They noticed that children who live on farms have a lower rate of allergy than town children. The idea being tested is that exposure to animals helps develop a better immune system. My father always believed that a healthy child had consumed at least a bucket of dirt by the time they were two years old. When my children were young I gradually weaned them off having everything sterilised before it went in their mouths before they were a year old. My daughter is as healthy as an ox in the immune department. In Shepparton every fourth child seems to suffer from asthma in varying degrees. When my son gets a cold (about once a year) You will hear the occasional soft wheeze from lung congestion. Other mothers say he has asthma but the doctors say he is perfectly healthy. Maybe this is part of the answer, maybe it is more complex. Something more to think about. Regards, Vickie in a frosty Shepparton, Australia. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Re: Food Allergies
I'm allergic to my own perspiration... The skin is the body's largest 'filtering' organ . . . It never *really* surfaced in Poland (except when I wore clothes made with more than 50% un-natural fiber), (snip) Tamara Or when whatever was in the 'unnatural' fiber, added to whatever was being 'filtered out' simply overwhelmed your immune system ? I don't know which way Poland's prevailing winds blow, but since the industrial age began a century ? two ? by now ? industrial chimneys have been polluting the soils of Earth - and been taken up by plants and eaten by herbivores - and us - *in* the plants/animals/animal products we eat . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re: Food Allergies
On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 00:13 US/Eastern, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: I am allergic to cheese. I have been, all my life. I am very ill if I have any - to be polite - just say it is a severe case of travel sickness!!! I was about 8, when I learnt that eating game food, no matter how presitgious (venison -- h, la, la, for some, *barf* for me g), caused the ultimate table disgrace, just like some more common meats (liver, kidneys, sweetbreads, heart, goose. But *not* tripe, brains, or duck. Go figure g) I'm allergic to *both* honey and cheese, but more to honey than cheese. So indulge in honey 3-4 times a year (a very small jar of pine-drippings or thyme honey takes care of my cravings for 2 yrs g), and in yellow cheese about once a month or less; thankfully, most of the yellow cheese available here is either not worth eating (cheap, but yucky), or else not worth buying (tasty, but out-of-sight expensive g) The buttermilk in the pot cheese I make for DH seems to make things easier, but I can't eat even that (or yogurt, or sour cream) more often than once a week... It's a *major* pain in the butt, since Polish cooking stands supported by two main pillars: sour cream on one side, and dill on the other... :) Tamara P Duvall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
