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Post by bazfaz on Jan 12, 2010 22:21:56 GMT
Strangely I developed an allergy to orange peel when I was about 40 This may not seem a great nuisance. OK, I had to give up orange marmelade (but I can eat grapefruit marmelade). But I get an allergic rash if I drink commercial orange drinks. The bottle/carton may say it is only juice but my skin says not.
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Post by spindrift on Jan 12, 2010 22:38:34 GMT
This might be due to obnoxious orange chemical colouring.....
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Post by bazfaz on Jan 13, 2010 8:30:47 GMT
Could be. But when I was getting eczema I was sent to have tests at the hospital. They put patches on my back of the 20 commonest causes of eczema. Orange peel was the only one that registered.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 8:54:59 GMT
I was reputedly allergic to orange juice as a baby. People are so psychotic now they probably deprive their children of all sorts of things for years.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 13, 2010 20:56:12 GMT
I recently read that people with serious peanut allergies can usually be desensitized by gradual controlled increased exposures. My doctor also once told me that allergies can come and go randomly for no apparent reason. I'm not consciously allergic to anything beyond pollen a bit.
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Post by bazfaz on Jan 13, 2010 21:43:09 GMT
I was told I might grow out of my orange peel allergy. I'm still waiting.
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Post by rikita on Jan 17, 2010 20:58:45 GMT
one of my brothers used to be strongly allergic to pollen, like he couldn't enjoy summer very much because his face was swollen and stuff... they tried to desentize him at some point but he had a reaction to that and fainted and had to go to the hospital. these days, he is only slightly allergic to pollen though, like i think he notices it at certain times but it isn't that bothersome anymore.
i, on the other hand, had no noticeable allergies as a kid, but for the last years i have been sneezing increasingly (fortunately nothing worse than that) and the doctor told me at a blood test she sees some indication of some allergy but i never got checked out so far what it is. i fear it might be dust (not sure whta you call that in english, but it is caused by some small things living in house-dust and stuff), and i am not really living in the type of apartment where you can avoid it...
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Post by lagatta on Jan 18, 2010 1:33:59 GMT
I think they are called "dust mites" in English. In French they are "acariens". What is the name in German?
Fortunately where I live now is in better condition than my last apartment, where there was a lot of mould, especially along the staircase to outside - even if I washed it with bleach, it returned.
I had a lot of allergies as a child, and that was a long time before the current obsession with them. Most have abated significantly.
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Post by bazfaz on Jan 18, 2010 8:56:17 GMT
I read today that yu should drink low alcohol wine to cut down the risk of cancer. I didn't pay too much attention to this story so I don't know if the headline meant (a) low alcohol wine cut down the risk of cancer; or (b) high alcohol wine was a cancer risk but low alcohol wine wasn't.
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Post by spaceneedle on Jan 18, 2010 10:05:17 GMT
The peanut allergy thing has puzzled me for a long time. I never remember any children with peanut allergies when I was growing up, but it seems to be an epidemic now, and it's scary that a child can apparently die from being in the same room where peanuts are present. The only allergies I remember other kids being afflicted with was allergies to milk.
I am allergic to chocolate and penicillin. It's amazing I'm still alive !
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2010 13:23:27 GMT
die from being in the same room as peanuts? i must admit i never heard that...
else - well, i think there are some researches about city kids having more allergies than countryside kids. i guess there is something about the idea that a child has to play in the dirt regularly in order to grow resistant...
the dust allergy in german is stauballergie, and the dust mites are called staubmilben.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2010 20:39:47 GMT
I keep reading more and more about dairy products not necessairly being good for adults. In any case, French consumption of milk dropped 24% between 1999 and 2007. However, the consumption of yogurt and other dairy products increased over the same period so the overall decline in dairy products was 12%. France is still #2 in the world for the consumption of cheese, but only #11 for milk (which still seems pretty high to me, considering the number of countries in the world).
Products which promise reduced lactose are skyrocketing among adults because frankly, a great number of adults have a lot of problems digesting lactose, even when they are in denial. Lactose can only be digested through an enzyme which happens to be at its highest level in babies and which declines as you get older. It is perfectly true that "milk is food for babies" because all of the mammals of the world (except humans) abandon milk the moment they are weaned.
Meanwhile, the dairy industry tries to convince us to cram as many dairy products down our throats as possible. The principal solution is to switch over to comparable soy products, which is what is happening slowly but surely.
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Post by bazfaz on Jan 19, 2010 21:46:58 GMT
I await the claims about soy products being bad for you.
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Post by rikita on Jan 19, 2010 23:11:45 GMT
i like cheese though, and yoghurt.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Jan 20, 2010 8:09:06 GMT
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Post by hwinpp on Jan 20, 2010 8:40:42 GMT
Ha, ha, ha, thanks, EC!
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Post by bjd on Jan 20, 2010 9:16:31 GMT
The worst about soy is the taste.
I had understood that in societies where people consume a lot of milk, the enzyme that breaks down the lactose does not disappear. It has to be maintained. Anyway, the French have never been milk drinkers, from what I have seen. Sure, lots of cheese, yogurt, etc, but they don't drink much milk. If they did, there wouldn't be so much long-conservation milk around. It tastes worse in France than anywhere else I have had to drink it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2010 14:08:00 GMT
And yet France is N° 11 in the world for milk consumption. (Finland is N° 1, Sweden N°2) To my great surprise, France drinks more milk per capita than the United States -- and that's on top of being N°2 in cheese and N° 1 in butter consumption.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 20, 2010 15:43:33 GMT
I'm VERY surprised about that. How much café-au-lait can one consume anyway?
Are USians all drinking soft drinks - even the children, for breakfast?
I've noticed the Dutch drinking a lot of milk. (This makes me gag, of course). But they also make cheese, much of it bland but some very good indeed. Even aged goat gouda! (Yum, yum!)
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Post by bazfaz on Jan 20, 2010 16:15:27 GMT
I had a couple of friends who opened a restaurant in Le Buisson in the Dordogne. I asked why they had milk on the menu along with wine, beer etc. Because of the Dutch, was the answer.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 20, 2010 16:32:43 GMT
One popular Dutch breakfast food is called Vla. It is like a very liquid milk custard (the starchy kind, not the eggy kind), and is eaten like yoghourt (though not by me!). It is so liquid that it pours out of a milk-type carton, not set like a custard pudding.
Proper thick yoghourt is of course found at Turkish shops.
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Post by rikita on Jan 22, 2010 0:29:07 GMT
but maybe cheese consumption is counted into that milk consumption?
i don't drink milk by itself, but i like cereal with milk and stuff like that... though lately i started liking chocolate cereal (the sweetest, most unhealthy kind) with chocolate soy milk...
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Post by lagatta on Jan 22, 2010 12:24:05 GMT
I think they were counted separately, rikita, though of course they both fall into the category of dairy product consumption.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2010 13:16:43 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jan 22, 2010 13:50:06 GMT
Weird -- the Greeks eat more cheese than anyone else?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2010 14:00:45 GMT
Yes, that is true.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 22, 2010 16:38:06 GMT
It occurs to me that the only Greek cheese I've heard of is feta, but there must be many more. (<--- thinly disguised goad to Baz about reporting on food in Crete & Greece)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2010 17:44:49 GMT
I know they have a number of hard cheeses, too, but I don't know their names.
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Post by rikita on Jan 22, 2010 22:12:24 GMT
in romania feta-type cheese is called branza, and other type cheese is called cascaval - so they are considered two quite different food items.
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Post by lagatta on Jan 23, 2010 0:13:25 GMT
Here is a short guide on common Greek cheeses available outside Greece: indeed, in hot Mediterranean countries soft ripened cheeses are less common than in northern France. www.ilovecheese.co.uk/Greek.html
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