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[cofax7]

Savage Minds today has an interesting piece on some new research about food allergies. Apparently a recent British study found little medical evidence of food allergies in most of the people who claimed to have them. Huh.

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[wiredferret]

I suspect the rise of food allergies has a lot to do with the lack of intestinal parasites, but I'm ok with this trade. Also, I read both articles, and couldn't find the method by which someone "disproves" an allergy or intolerance, medically.

[jood]

I'd be very interested in seeing what that method entails. Because the common heuristic method of determining a food sensitivity or allergy is hardly clinical to begin with.

[rednikki]

While the writer is correct that some people do say they have food allergies as a shorthand for "I don't like this" or "I want to be special," there are a bunch of us who really DO have food allergies. I have spent more evenings than I can count puking my guts out because people (like my mom, or a restaurant server, or a DOCTOR) ignored my food allergies. It sucks like a giant sucking thing.

It is interesting that the study in question was funded by the Flour Advisory Bureau.