Fake food allergies and why it needs to stop

[indes]

I just don't understand the gluten free fad. Apparently 20% of people were making all their own food from scratch 3 years ago.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by indes

I just don't understand the gluten free fad.

Every group I've been on in the past 5 years, someone mentions ezcema and it's 'oh you should go gluten free.' Practically every issue is met with 'you should go gluten free.' I don't get it, especially since there's zero correlation between gluten and pretty much every issue ever mentioned. And then it's followed with suggestions of 12 different essential oils to use, whether it's to ingest them or slather them on a particular area. If it's not EOs then it's magic mud or a crystal or super juice. I suppose it makes sense though, from the perspective that these are also the people who think naturopaths are doctors. I mean, natural path. They can never seem to spell naturopath either.

[cDnStealth]

Ya I don't understand why people willingly give up gluten. I sure as hell wouldn't have given it up if I weren't medically diagnosed with celiac disease. It sucks. I have to be super careful and I hate eating out now.

The gluten free fad diet is sort of a double edge sword in my opinion. On the one hand, the increased demand for gluten free products has opened up a lot of food options at grocery stores and restaurants for people like myself. But on the other hand, I encounter a lot of restaurants that don't take celiac disease seriously because it's seen as a fad.

[Fuzz]

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I'm with ya on that. After eating gluten free for 4 years, I can assure you, gluten is the ingredient that makes stuff good! I have no idea why anyone would go without it willingly. Plus you usually pay the "gluten free tax". So you are going to willing pay more for something that is worse? WTF is wrong with you? You can tell the fakers because the order a normal beer with their gluten free food.

That being said, it is nice to have a lot more options and food has gotten a lot better, particularly bread. I haven't had to many restaurant issues in Canada, you say celiac and they get it. Travelling is the toughest. I've been hit a few times.

I think the worst was actually a place in Montreal, they advertised gluten free options, and when I ordered I told the guy, and he assured me the toast was fine and everything else too. Well he put the gluten free dish in front of my wife, and only after I took a bite of the bread did I realize it wasn't gluten free because gawd-damn, it was delicious! Guy just assumed I was asking about the gluten free stuff for her, not me. That was a rough day in the hotel...

[shermanator]

As someone who's sat there while a friend says "I'm going gluten free to be healthier" while simultaneously mowing down on a pound of wings, I loved this read.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by indes

I just don't understand the gluten free fad. Apparently 20% of people were making all their own food from scratch 3 years ago.

It's like a really low-key, less assertive version of Munchausen's. Everyone's not only a special little flower, but a victim of some forces beyond their control. Please give me attention and sympathy, for my life is difficult, and it's not my fault.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout

Here's a question. What do you think the proper protocol is if you have diverticulitis?

You can't digest seeds or nuts, and go into extreme pain if you consume them. However it's not an allergy like seafood or peanuts where incidental contact doesn't affect you.

Do you say allergy? As you go into extreme pain from consumption, but you don't need the kitchen to go into full on clean room mode.

Do you say you don't want them? Thus the kitchen doesn't go into full clean mode to ensure zero incidental contact, but less attention is paid. Thus you will get food with seeds and nuts from time to time (and from my experience more often than once in a blue moon).

Now I don't suffer from diverticulitis but I have a family member that does. She never used to like to say "allergy" but when food continuously comes out incorrect she switched to allergy. If they ask how severe she will tell them, incidental contact is ok but the meal cannot contain them.

So, what should protocol actually be here?

I have diverticulitis and asked my doctor about the seeds and nuts thing, he told me it was BS and that regardless of what I ate I would get attacks every now and then, the inflammation in the gut wasn't particular to any type of food, I eat what the hell I want (three sesame seed bars for a buck fifty at least once a week) and once or twice a year have to sit on the can drinking as much water as I can get down. If anything dehydration is the real problem with it in my experience.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

It's like a really low-key, less assertive version of Munchausen's. Everyone's not only a special little flower, but a victim of some forces beyond their control. Please give me attention and sympathy, for my life is difficult, and it's not my fault.

My pet peeve is the my kids behaviour is due to eating sugar/gluten/meat or what ever, no your kids a ######bag because you are a crappy parent who panders to his every whim because you think he's a special little angel.

Ive lost count of the number of foster kids I've had turn up at my door telling me their mum says they are allergic to this or that, none of them are allergic to meth or ketamine though!!

[OldDutch]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

My pet peeve is the my kids behaviour is due to eating sugar/gluten/meat or what ever, no your kids a ######bag because you are a crappy parent who panders to his every whim because you think he's a special little angel.

I had to LOL at this, I have seen this too.