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gluten free biscuits might be literally the worst thing i have ever tasted

i feel better when i don't eat a lot of wheat/bread/pasta/etc but i think that's just getting older. i wouldn't say i'm allergic. i definitely feel better without out it though. i do get pretty bad pollen/etc allergies now too. i think it's an age thing. i don't know what the deal is with little kids who can't eat strawberries and tons of other stuff. i don't remember it being like that when i was a kid. but i doubt it's all Roundup related. i don't know what that is.

but yeah there are threads for that. sorry.

My wife has a corn intolerance, if you want to talk about things that it's tough to convince people are real.

Pollen allergies are said to get worse from global warming. My allergies got dramatically worse in 2015.

My wife has a corn intolerance, if you want to talk about things that it's tough to convince people are real.

― how's life, Monday, February 6, 2017 1:29 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My wife is allergic to fruit!

oof. that's gotta suck.

i'm allergic to peanuts and anything peanut related. people are pretty fascinated with it. i sometimes have to clarify that yes i'm also allergic to peanut butter and candy with peanuts in them, not just peanuts by themselves.

do they think that coating a peanut in chocolate somehow neutralizes allergens? that'd be a cool trick.

That's not terribly controversial. The existence of nonceliac gluten sensitivity has been debated for decades, and the research suggests about a third of those claiming nonceliac gluten sensitivity have some sensitivity to wheat components (though not necessarily gluten). Some NutritionFacts videos:

Is Gluten Sensitivity Real?
Gluten-Free Diets: Separating the Wheat from the Chat
How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance

― my neurons made me do it (Sanpaku), Monday, February 6, 2017 6:05 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

if those studies are real, then why is there so much gluten free food, huh? makes you think

was more loling at "it's not controversial, it's been debated for decades"

(and research suggests it isn't a made up thing)

I think it's.. exaggerated... in that people treat celiac disease like obsessive-compulsive disorder in that "I'm gluten intolerant" is like "I'm a little bit ocd" and it is a treasure for companies trying to find a new market niche

I should push harder to make that opinion more controversial

ya sanpaku is cool but i kinda lol'd too

you're one of the good guys sanpy don't worry

when i eat gluten-free desserts i feel less bloated

i've not read the studies by the way

when i first started getting spring allergies it was probably around 15 or 20 years ago. now i get them almost all year because of the weird weather. stuff starts blooming in december. mosquitoes in december. something i never thought i'd see being a new england/east coast person. the winter is when i get them least though. but spring to fall i get itchy eyes/tired/etc. it sucks. i take lots of that meth stuff.

same

reposting a controversial opinion:

controversial opinion but i suspect the american military is actually bad and dumb and they wouldn't just have a lot of casualties but i think they would lose any war they got into with another actual country that's bigger than iraq.

― nomar, Monday, February 6, 2017

imo, the US military's great weakness is capturing and holding territory where there is a significant hostile population. they're great at attrition on the battlefield, but occupation is a numbers game and the US army can't muster the numbers without a YUGE military draft. not even if we called in all our NATO allies to help us. for example, it is hard to imagine a non-nuclear war with China that resulted in anything other than an exhausting stalemate. a nuclear war would, of course, result in Mutually Assured Destruction, which is only a more catastrophic type of stalemate.

I've been taking nasal spray all year round but I just got advised to check a doctor about possible side effects. Really worried I won't be allowed to keep on taking it and being left unable to concentrate much and unable to go to cinema because of sneezing and running.

is young angela merkel the one on the right in that picture?

you wish

The 1975 are The Kooks for the Spotify generation.

i feel like the us military is great at fighting wars according to the geneva conventions. how many more wars are going to be fought according to the geneva conventions?

I've been taking nasal spray all year round but I just got advised to check a doctor about possible side effects. Really worried I won't be allowed to keep on taking it and being left unable to concentrate much and unable to go to cinema because of sneezing and running.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, February 6, 2017 2:35 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what kind of nasal spray? i used Zicam a lot in the late aughts whenever i had a cold, and then it got recalled because of rebound effects. this happened to me all the time: would have a cold for 3 days, would be completely congested, use the Zicam and it worked better than anything ever, but after 3 days you had to keep using it otherwise your nose would close back up. so i'd end up taking it for weeks at a time. p sure this fucked up my nose, though i've always had congestion problems...

also xp Angela Merkel grew into her looks

swoon

http://img.wennermedia.com/620-width/181152202_angela-merkel-zoom-4980b7ac-7291-4178-acd5-c9063ab8e7a4.jpg

Flappy Bird- I use Nasobec Beclometasone Dipropionate. I got it prescribed after spending a the majority of a year with allergy problems but then I just kept buying it afterwards.

I worry about the side effects of prolonged use of anti-histamine medication so I just wear a particulate respirator all day

My dad is into science and evidence and so on, but when the doctor said "why not try cutting out gluten?" it seemed to sort out the nasty digestive trouble he'd been having straight away. I don't know whether that's the placebo effect or whatever, but he's sticking to it and that seems to be working out well for him, so : /

Wins- does it stop your nose running?

A quick image search shows some that say "misuse may result in sickness or death".

seems to be working out well for him, so : /

for ordinary & personal purposes, good results are >>>> scientific verification

Yeah, exactly. And (which will elicit less sympathy) my wife (who is from China) is seriously into TCM, and while I don't agree with her on this particular topic it's taught me a lot about not judging people for doing whatever works best for them. The :/ is confusion at other people not getting this but instead getting annoyed with other people for not being logical.

xxp yeah but to be clear I don't wear it out on the street or anything, just at work - I work with cereal crops and the allergic sensitivity that develops from prolonged exposure to the dust (especially barley, that shit is nasty) can get quite extreme quite quickly - aside from terrible rhinitis I realised I was feeling really run-down all the time and this contributed quite a bit to that (although there are a good few other health problems that mean I feel like shit all the time anyway lol). I have a liver condition so I worry about 1-a-day allergy tablets putting a strain on it, but the respirator seems to do the trick - used to just use it for proper ~hazardous chemicals~ but now I wear it all day; I potentially have another 30-odd years of working with this stuff day in day out & cant afford to fuck about

re non-coeliac ppl avoiding gluten, digestive conditions like ibs &c are pretty poorly understood & the advice often seems to just be "work out for yourself what affects you and avoid it"

Cutting out gluten removes a category of foods that have other effects on your body besides providing gluten, so he may be benefiting from that.

xps

this is reminding me that I work near labs and hear some stories wins would find entertaining, gotta work on sharing those

the whole food thing, it's such a complex system of environmental and genetic concerns compounded with your whole bacterial ecosystem

when I was a kid, I couldn't eat eggs. I mean, I could have foods made with egg or egg yolks or w/e but if I had more than a tiny piece of scrambled eggs at breakfast I'd have the most excruciating stomach and abdominal cramps for the rest of the day to the point I'd just curl up in a ball on my bed

at some point I either outgrew this or my biology changed enough that it's not at all an issue. had a couple eggs over easy yesterday, no prob

otm

Wins- does your allergy symptoms keep going after work? You don't wear the mask at home? When you're feeling lousy can you concentrate on difficult reading?

Well not really but again there are other things at play - I don't think I'm that affected by allergy symptoms outside of work. The one time I wished I had it was this weekend when I went to London lol

Why would you wish that?

Because the air in London is not v breathable

I figured you were just looking for an excuse not to go out with friends

Yeah, exactly. And (which will elicit less sympathy) my wife (who is from China) is seriously into TCM, and while I don't agree with her on this particular topic it's taught me a lot about not judging people for doing whatever works best for them. The :/ is confusion at other people not getting this but instead getting annoyed with other people for not being logical.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, February 6, 2017 1:42 PM (fifty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you don't like old movies?

I always think of Texas Chainsaw Massacre first.

US Army hasn't properly won a war on its own since the nineteenth century. WW1&2 they came in after years of fighting by everyone else, and Korea, Vietname, Iraqs 1 & 2, Afghanistan, Cuba etc all were varying degrees of fuck-ups.

tbf 19th century wars were all also fuckups as were wwi and wwii

None of the next 46 US Presidents should be men.

Reassuring that you think there'll be any at all

Maybe Sarah Palin will get another shot.