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In reply to the discussion: Processed foods are a much bigger health problem than we thought [View all]happybird
(4,588 posts)8. For many years I have thought all these
crazy food allergies young people now have must be due to something in processed foods. ADHD, too.
I was an oddball in grade school because I was the only kid who had allergies and related asthma (mold and mildew was the trigger). I've only known a handful of folks my age and older with food allergies, and it's always shellfish. Over 20 years of waiting tables, I only had few customers with allergies- again, it was almost always shellfish.
What has changed since then is the proliferation of processed foods. It's the one common factor across all regions of the US and all socioeconomic groups. I bet the food lobbies work hard to make sure studies on this are suppressed.
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I started the Keto diet about 2 months ago, and one thing I noticed after about a week or two is
smirkymonkey
Jun 2019
#28
High Fructose Corn Syrup would be banned if our government cared even a little about our health
Calculating
Jun 2019
#10
I worked in Quality Control for a major Pharmaceutical company for over 35 years
patphil
Jun 2019
#20
Saw a scientist on tv (60 Minutes or something). He had worked in the chips industry.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2019
#13
Glyphosate is in all our food, but it's usually in smaller amts in organic food
womanofthehills
Jun 2019
#34
Been doing for 30 yrs. I think I know how it works with Obesity & article obliquely confirms
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2019
#26
I remember in University studying Agriculture(which is a STEM program dammit!)
GulfCoast66
Jun 2019
#35