Are food allergies simply the result of an overly-sterile environment during childhood or of a diet lacking in a...

Are food allergies simply the result of an overly-sterile environment during childhood or of a diet lacking in a diversity of foods?

No. Some, like favism and Celiac Disease are genetic.

Knew a guy that had a non-genetic intolerance to gluten. It was not celiacs and extremely rare, but caused by overexposure to breads, eating a ton of it every damned day.

He could still consume a little because it wasn't a histamine reaction or celiacs, but it fucked up his lifestyle.

Really, aren't food allergies the result of too much food diversity? Peanuts are endemic to a few South American countries, but peanut allergies affect millions of North Americans and Europeans because of globalization. If local diets were less diverse, allergens like peanuts (and wheat, tree nuts, soy, etc.) would never be a problem.

The explosion of food allergies has only occured in the modern western glutonous countries so it's really a symptom of pampered spoiled brats calling attention to themselves. Without a doubt, if everyone was forced to go w/o food for 10 days in the US beginning on their 18th bday, there would be under 5% of the population with food allergies. But oh no, we have to accept the fact that suddenly, in one generation 60% of the population has developed a gluten allergy or some other bs.

Celiac is genetic but it can also be caused by a pregnant mother eating a gluten free diet. The anti gluten meme is going to fuck our entire species.

That's not how it works. All the rest being equal, they'd still be allergic, it just wouldn't affect them day-to-day. Allergies develop when your immune system freaks out at this new furriner food what is probably poison n shiet and tries to contain the terrible scourge of peanut invaders.

There's more kids alive with food allergies now because in the past your kid would just die of 'consumption' and you'd never know what went wrong.

I'm sick to death of people like this who think that just because they can eat a nut without dying, that must mean the rest of us are faking it. Like a food allergy is some kind of social justice protected class on par with claiming to be demigendered. I don't know why my immune system's decided that normal food is a poison, but it doesn't make me any more whiny than you'd be for refusing to eat arsenic.

While I believe plenty of people pretend they have allergies just to be interesting, I also believe that overeating specific food causes intolerance and then allergies. I developed histamine intolerance and have to take a pill each morning to stop me from itching, also my exposed skin parts swell up in cold weather. I think it may crept up on me when I was bodybuilding and ate food high in histamine by the boatload. Or maybe not, fuck knows, but here we are. A pill a day or a drastic diet till the rest of my life. No red wine, or alcohol for that matter, no canned food, no smoked or fermented meats or dairy products, citrus fruit and pineapples, tomato sauce or condiments in general and a whole deal of other very basic stuff.

In oher news, certain grain type has been popularized because it is immune to a lot of disease and gives more and bigger kernels. The catch is it has A LOT more gluten compared to other forms of grain.

Lastly, overprocessed foods, artificial additives and retardedly high amounts of sugar and salt, but thats more of a general health concern than allergy.

>The anti gluten meme is going to fuck our entire species.
No it isn't. Only a very small percentage of women are going to go on a wacky diet during pregnancy.

Apparently there is a way to cure allergies with acupressure. Look up NAET

You're half-right.
>The explosion of food allergies has only occured in the modern western glutonous countries
Yes.
>so it's really a symptom of pampered spoiled brats calling attention to themselves
Not really. People being picky is different with true allergy.
There was a study made and they compared children from the countryside (farmers) vs city kids. The results were astounding. Farmers' kids almost never have any allergy except for very specific ones that came out from nowhere. That is because they were exposed to cow shit (I mean shit in general by the way) than city kids. They play in mud, with shit sticked on a twig covered with moss and bird shit, they definitely become stronger and more resistant to allergies, and some diseases too.

The anti-gluten fad is retarded though. For the longest time I thought I was intolerant to gluten because whenever I ate some type of bread (and burgers) I was shitting some yellow foam out of my ass. People are trying to blame their health issues on something natural instead of blaming the overuse of sugar and additives everywhere. Went to see the doc, one of the leading specialists of digestion issues, said I was basically intolerant to FODMAP, which is included in a lot of additives. No more processed food for me and my shit is now normal, thank God. I now cook and make everything on my own, feeling great.

>consumption was just a vague term with no specific symptoms
Niggah, consumption was literally the term used by medfags in the 1800's to describe specifically TB. And yes, Doc Adams of Dodge City, KS in 1868 was capable of diagnosing TB w/o your hi-falutin' x-ray.

Current medfags are also promoting the "everybodies got an allergy" scenario so they can fund their next upgrade to their yacht or the downpayment on their chalet in the swiss alps, so theirs that.

My gf is allergic to lactose and alcohol 'cause she's Asian.

Babies exposed to peanuts are less likely to have peanut allergies.

not kidding , those are some nice grapes

Mine got lucky and can have as much dairy as she wants. She goes crazy for baked brie. She does get hit hard by alcohol though. I'm talking, a single bourbon mule has her giggling and she's blackout drunk at 4.

This sums it up. It's definitely both.

Nah you're wrong a lot of people fake it or have psuedo-allergies.

It kind of works out though for me since I have teh alcoholisms. Glad you two can enjoy cheese together.

And that small percentage gives birth to celiac children who go on to spread those genes. Meanwhile another small percentage of women in the next generation exculde gluten from their diet and birth celiac children. Unless the celiacs stop reproducing the percentage of humans that are celiac will only increase.

My mother is allergic to fish due to my grandmothers craving for fish and chips during pregnancy and hazel nuts for the same reason.

My korean waifu too. She drinks milk with meals, but a couple of glasses of scotch and she's a literal screaming, uncontrollable succubus in bed that night. Relentlessly burns my ass down to sheet changing levels.

Sometimes it's random. I love black cherries and I have loved them my entire life. Fresh fruit in general is just awesome. I used to eat black cherries by the assload every summer but then one year they just started making my throat itch and my membranes swell. Even started getting indigestion. That same year I got the same reaction from walnuts and peaches. Turned out that I had developed an allergic reaction to cherries and every fruit related to the cherry. Fucking annoying.

Still, every now and then I will force myself to eat cherries because I still love them. Sometimes I get a bad reaction to them, sometimes (rarely though) I get none. It's strange.

I regularly ate fruit during childhood and became allergic to pretty much every fruit in my 20s. I used to play outside, play with bugs, get dirty, etc. as a kid and always had a varied diet.

I'm guessing it's genetic. My family comes from places where dairy was heavily consumed and it's always been my favorite food. I was reading a history book and it said that people from these places mainly ate meat, milk, grains, and had berries once in a while. I can tolerate berries more than something like a mango, but if I eat too much of them I still get a reaction.

Government should start offering genetic screening and if necessary PGD+IVF for free to married couples.

We need to genocide Celiac sufferers (through eugenics).