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"While we found that one in 10 adults have food allergy, nearly twice as many adults think that they are allergic to foods, while their symptoms may suggest food intolerance or other food related conditions," says lead author Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, from Lurie Children's, who also is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "It is important to see a physician for appropriate testing and diagnosis before completely eliminating foods from the diet. If food allergy is confirmed, understanding the management is also critical, including recognizing symptoms of anaphylaxis and how and when to use epinephrine."
[...] "We were surprised to find that adult-onset food allergies were so common," says Dr. Gupta. "More research is needed to understand why this is occurring and how we might prevent it."
The study data indicate that the most prevalent food allergens among U.S. adults are shellfish (affecting 7.2 million adults), milk (4.7 million), peanut (4.5 million), tree nut (3 million), fin fish (2.2 million), egg (2 million), wheat (2 million), soy (1.5 million), and sesame (.5 million).
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday January 06 2019, @07:13PM
My mother was doing gluten-free back in the 1980's, long before whole industrial production lines started up to cater to it. She legitimately feels awful whenever she has stuff based on wheat, so it was worth the pain-in-the-butt efforts to go to the tiny health food store or co-op in town to get the stuff she could only find there.
That's not the same as the lots of people who are doing gluten-free because they think that makes their food healthier. Of course, it doesn't really make their food healthier to not eat wheat-based food, but it seems like it does because by trying for gluten free they tend to think about what they're eating a lot more, eat less of random snacks, and take in more vegetables and proteins. They would have gotten exactly the same result had they chosen any fad diet they wanted, whether it be Atkins or keto or paleo or whatever else they've come up with this year.
The proof of exactly how much BS there is out there about food: Steve Jobs always ate what the foodie types thought was a super-healthy diet based on fruits and nuts and vegetables, and he's dead of cancer. Meanwhile, Steve Wozniak always generally liked pizza and chips and soda, and he's happily alive and still doing a whole bunch of fun goofing off.
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