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May Contain Carrot

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i can't believe people today are allergic to so much , but 500 years ago, nobody was allergic to anything

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FoBoT said:
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i can't believe people today are allergic to so much , but 500 years ago, nobody was allergic to anything

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Back then their diet consisted of mud and straw. When they could get it.

However, seriously, even a few hundred years ago peoples diets were pretty basic. Whatever grains they grew, whatever they trapped, and maybe some dairy.

Nowadays there are more ingredients in a Snickers bar than a person may have eaten in their entire lives a couple of hundred years ago.
 
techs said:
Back then their diet consisted of mud and straw. When they could get it.

However, seriously, even a few hundred years ago peoples diets were pretty basic. Whatever grains they grew, whatever they trapped, and maybe some dairy.

Nowadays there are more ingredients in a Snickers bar than a person may have eaten in their entire lives a couple of hundred years ago.
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But oddly enough, it's the most basic of things that people are allergic to: nuts, dairy, fruit, etc.

I'm allergic to shrimp, lobster and crabs. 🙁
 
darkxshade said:
But oddly enough, it's the most basic of things that people are allergic to: nuts, dairy, fruit, etc.

I'm allergic to shrimp, lobster and crabs. 🙁
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My theory is that we are exposed to so many and so many unique substances and foods nowadays that many of them trigger responses in our body than can result in allergies.

For example, someone who is allergic to peanuts may have originally been allergic to some chemical or pesticide used to treat peanuts, and the body then has a allergic reaction to the peanuts alone even when that chemical or pesticide is no longer used.
 
SunnyD said:
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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Ah, that raises the question, are allergic reactions in any way beneficial?
Perhaps random allergies work to the benefit of man, ensuring some people don't eat certain kinds of food. That might make them try to eat other things, which by chance may result in new food sources for everyone, or encourage man to grow, harvest, etc more varieties of food, helping to ensure against plant or animal disease destroying a basic food source?
 
techs said:
Ah, that raises the question, are allergic reactions in any way beneficial?
Perhaps random allergies work to the benefit of man, ensuring some people don't eat certain kinds of food. That might make them try to eat other things, which by chance may result in new food sources for everyone, or encourage man to grow, harvest, etc more varieties of food, helping to ensure against plant or animal disease destroying a basic food source?
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Actually heard of a family that had a baby that had severe peanut allergies and they slowly started introducing peanuts to him until it was nowhere near as bad.
 
FoBoT said:
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i can't believe people today are allergic to so much , but 500 years ago, nobody was allergic to anything
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It's because we're screwing with Darwin here by warning them. That and homes being too clean without any pathogens thanks to paranoia and germ killers in everything.
 
Arcadio said:
I didn't know there was such a thing as a carrot allergy.
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I don't think it's about allergies, it's so if they ship a bag full of cow dung they can say "Hey, the bag says MAY contain carrots. We never guaranteed that it WILL."
 
Nitemare said:
Actually heard of a family that had a baby that had severe peanut allergies and they slowly started introducing peanuts to him until it was nowhere near as bad.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...re-for-peanut-allergy-within-three-years.html

The issue is that doctors didn't truly understand the nature of treating food allergies until the past 10 years or so.

We have been doing it all wrong. You don't want to remove the allergen. You want to expose the body slowly over time so that the body realizes that it doesn't need to attack it.

Allergies are an auto-immune issue.

I bet within 10 years, we will be able to cure all food related allergies.

It is the same issue with pet allergies. Children that are exposed to pets very early in life are much less likely to have allergies to pets. That is completely consistent with the fact that people 200 years ago didn't have allergies to animals because everyone was around at least a horse from birth. Not so much in this day and age.
 
techs said:
Ah, that raises the question, are allergic reactions in any way beneficial?
Perhaps random allergies work to the benefit of man, ensuring some people don't eat certain kinds of food. That might make them try to eat other things, which by chance may result in new food sources for everyone, or encourage man to grow, harvest, etc more varieties of food, helping to ensure against plant or animal disease destroying a basic food source?
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I used to be allergic to crab (still am) but I loved it (still do). I eat it occasionally and I seem to get less sick each time. Originally it made me throw up pretty quickly, now it just gives me a headache.
 
darkxshade said:
But oddly enough, it's the most basic of things that people are allergic to: nuts, dairy, fruit, etc.

I'm allergic to shrimp, lobster and crabs. 🙁
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They're probably allergic not to the main ingredient but whatever chemical(s) they used during the processing.

That must suck. I love crabs!
 
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