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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
What people on the diet have done is effectively negated the people that do have true allergies to it. Many cooks now hear someone wants something gluten free and they think a little won't hurt because these people aren't really allergic.
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True, but I have to admit for someone with a true wheat allergy, it's made my life easier seeing more choices available easily. It was tough before because it's in everything. There is so much wheat in our diets.Had to always special order and ship, make from scratch more foods. I would starve to death trying to get through airports when I needed a quick bite to eat. I wasted so many slices of pizza peeling off the cheese on top. Airlines made me throw a pear out and couldn't bring it on board for some Florida agriculture issue one time.
I had flavored coffee one Christmas eve at a neighbors and I think it had wheat or something else in it. Boy did I get a latent reaction later when I got home. The hives were so deep with raised ravines my skin looked like the Grand Canyon. Then I got the flu which I have never got again after diagnoses, if I stay away from certain foods because allergies suppress your immune system.