RE: The Epidemic Rise in FOOD ALLERGIES -- And How They Knew 100 Years ago that Vaccination Could Cause This
Okay ... I just read that abstract you linked to ... thank you for supplying that!
You seem to be right that I over-exaggerated the risk of death related to food allergies.
Your article says ...
Allan Colver believes that the increasing prescription of emergency prophylaxis to children fuels anxiety rather than saving lives
...the number of children with adrenaline (epinephrine) autoinjectors has greatly increased, and many children, parents, and teachers are anxious.
What jumped out at me is the part about the epi-pens (epinephrine). You may have seen in the news lately outrage over how the drug companies raised the price beyond affordability when it only costs less than $1 to produce. What I see is the pharmaceutical companies ONCE AGAIN using fear to SELL A PRODUCT -- first they profit off of your fear of once normal childhood illnesses like measles to see multiple doses and boosters of vaccines .... then when the vaccines give you a food allergy, they profit off an over-stated fear of death from food allergy.
Again, thank-you for that link, I really enjoyed learning something else new... it seems I never stop learning even after researching this for 13 years.
To conclude, no child or adult should have to suffer discomfort or pain their whole life from the simple act of eating normally nutritious food. My son's 12-yr-old friend found out recently he is sensitive to gluten, and he is in a lot of pain when he eats it, but the poor kid hates that he can't join us when we are eating. He eats is often anyways even though he regrets it later, because it's so hard not to take a piece of the birthday cake, etc. It is sad and this poor child is missing a lot of days of school due to stomach distress. I hate seeing him suffer.
Yeah, the fear surrounding food allergies is a very interesting one to me. My brother has worked in emergency medicine for something like 10 years (first in an ambulance, and then in an emergency room in a regional trauma center hospital), and he told me he's never even once seen someone with a life-threatening allergic reaction to food. And yet we all believe that food allergies are common and extremely dangerous.
When I talk about food allergies, I'm including things like gluten sensitivities -- things that you eat and cause you pain or discomfort. Those things seem very common. But maybe "allergy" isn't quite the correct term? I'm going to have to look into this further.
Gluten sensitivity is a remnant of the time when we started using wheat as a source of food. Most of us have evolved to be able to congest gluten while there are still many individuals that haven't. Same goes for cow's milk.
As for cow's milk I have found that raw milk which is non homogenized and unpasteurized doesn't cause problems for most people. When I met my husband he told me he couldn't drink milk and indeed he would get these deep painful zits when he had it, and then I discovered raw milk which he has no problem with. You can make cheese with raw milk and 99% of the casein is digested by the bacteria and my husband can eat raw milk cheese no problem.
I really believe the problem isn't the foods that people used to eat for thousands of years and were healthy for us, but the problem is the way they have either changed the foods to be something they never were in the past ... or because we have damaged our bodies through things like vaccinations and our bodies can't handle it anymore
I did research a while back and found that gluten intolerance is triggered by mercury. A friend's was triggered when she had her mouth full of amalgams removed in Central America. The dentist did a poor job because she felt like she was going out of her mind for a few days afterward. You know, Mad as a Hatter? I gave her a bottle of coriander seed oil (by Activation Products) which detoxifies Mercury and her gluten intolerance improved a lot where now if she accidentally eats gluten it doesn't bother her.
And of course vaccines contain mercury so that's why it would help trigger gluten intolerance. And there is wheat in some vaccines. So both the mercury and the wheat combined in a vaccine would make it a double whammy.
This website links to a bunch of studies that indicate "food allergies" numbers in different countries. I am curious now though what their definition of a "food allergy" is.
http://barbfeick.com/vaccinations/allergy/951-vaccine_allergy.htm
Ok ... from what I just found it seems that these researchers are including "sensitivities" and "hyper-sensitivities" when they talk about allergies ... so things like soy and wheat that would normally never kills someone.