Wheat/dairy intolerance?

[MyGSXF:Me]

Both my kids & I drink 'Alfalite' as an alternative to cows milk! The difference in physical symptoms & how we feel, is VERY noticeable! (tis gluten free also!)


http://www.alfafoods.co.nz/Home/OurP...4/Default.aspx

works out at $1.70 P/L too!!

[Usarka]

My physio told me to work on my glutes. I must be gluten free

I prefer to avoid soy over wheat or dairy. I pity the poor fool who can't drink a milkshake without an allergic reaction.

[Mikkel]

Ever since I got cured of my hypochondriasis I have been fine with it... (belly rubs worked a treat) these days I only have to worry about haemorroids and flatus.

[Hitcher]

Both my kids & I drink 'Alfalite' as an alternative to cows milk! The difference in physical symptoms & how we feel, is VERY noticeable! (tis gluten free also!)

Presumably you're drinking this because of a lactose intolerance, because dairy products contain no gluten.

Now there's a thought. Just as some New Zealand chicken products manufacturers scream that their products contain no growth promoting hormones or "GM", dairy manufacturers should also scream that theirs contain no gluten.

Women drinking soya products (all of which contain traces of GM, by the way) need to be wary of the oestrogen levels in soy, which can manifest itself by zitty complexions.

[MyGSXF:Me]

Presumably you're drinking this because of a lactose intolerance, because dairy products contain no gluten.

Correct.

see attached sheet for info

[MisterD]

Presumably you're drinking this because of a lactose intolerance,

I've done a bit of reading on lactose intolerance, which is apparently more common than you'd think...only the northern Europeans and some of the Africans evolved to retain an infant mammal's natural ability to digest lactose into adulthood, everyone else stops being able to produce the required enzyme.

I found all this out following the birth of our first baby by c-section when MrsD developed secondary lactose intolerance - when the body temporarily stops producing the enzyme as a reaction to the trauma of the operation.

[Hitcher]

I've done a bit of reading on lactose intolerance, which is apparently more common than you'd think

You're quite right. Most of the world's people are lactose intolerant. That makes me wonder about the intellect behind those wanting expand their dairy empires into the vast "untapped" markets of China and India.

[Naki Rat]

You're quite right. Most of the world's people are lactose intolerant. That makes me wonder about the intellect behind those wanting expand their dairy empires into the vast "untapped" markets of China and India.

Those would be the same intellects that didn't see the melamine contamination fraud coming

[CookMySock]

Yeah dairy makes me fart long clear rattly ones, but I love a good fart, and its fun lighting them, and dairy is yummy. Yeah so I'm not intolerant, but sometimes other people are.

Steve

[bezajel]

As one of the "worried well" it's a real bitch returning from a day's ride with concentration levels comparable to having had a few pints, due to having consumed a poorly tolerated food that has slipped in under the radar

I'm gluten free without a diagnosis, but currently it's part of the whole keeping a diary and seeing what works.

It's great when things are marked gluten free on the menu, 'cause it's a bitch having to ask about every little thing. Though I'm vegetarian, too, so even places that offer gluten free things often don't have something I can eat. (E.g. gluten free burgers at burger fuel, yay! But wait, all the vegetarian patties have breadcrumbs - or gluten free dishes offered at my previously favourite italian place! But wait... the only vegetarian dishes are pasta... etc.)

Ranty ranty! Anyway...

What I meant to comment on was the concentration equivalent of having had a few pints. I get that frequently, but for me I think it's mis-timed meals and blood sugar levels. Another issue I think I need to sort out, but it's damn annoying.

[Usarka]

Women drinking soya products (all of which contain traces of GM, by the way) need to be wary of the oestrogen levels in soy, which can manifest itself by zitty complexions.

Not just chicks that need to watch the estrogen. Unless guys want to star in small dick shemale gang bang orgy pr0n spectaculars.

Soy is evil (well, the soy pushers are evil).

Believe all that you read! http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/

[Hitcher]

What I meant to comment on was the concentration equivalent of having had a few pints. I get that frequently, but for me I think it's mis-timed meals and blood sugar levels. Another issue I think I need to sort out, but it's damn annoying.

You'll probably find that your blood iron levels are all out of whack too, being a female vegetarian. Most female veggos are anaemic.

[saxet]

If you don't understand what I wrote, I'm not sure what your expectations are.
There is a lot of emotion about any or all of those, some of which has some basis in fact, much of which does not.

What people choose to eat is a matter of personal choice. I have no issues with people who are making informed choices about their health and diet. I do, however, have issues with people who seek to deliberately mislead others by promulgating bodgy information.

Well that has'nt explained much..like how some of us don't have the luxury of CHOOSING what to eat..these Choices are forced onto us.There is alot of myth around some of the items you mentiond..there is also,as I have come to realise, alot of myth around accepted science.

[Hitcher]

There is alot of myth around some of the items you mentiond.

That's why I mentioned them.

Being concerned about food safety and suitability is very much a developed western middle-class indulgence. Many of the humans on this planet have no idea where their next meal is coming from, and consequently have no interest whatsoever in things like food allergies, cholesterol or whether products are organically grown by unionised Inuits.

[Naki Rat]

That's why I mentioned them.

Being concerned about food safety and suitability is very much a developed western middle-class indulgence. Many of the humans on this planet have no idea where their next meal is coming from, and consequently have no interest whatsoever in things like food allergies, cholesterol or whether products are organically grown by unionised Inuits.

Indulgence, maybe for the well heeled with green fuzzy idealists, but for an increasing portion of Westerners replace 'indulgence' with 'problem'. The problem being that their diet is becoming more and more polluted with highly-refined, additive riddled, plastic packaged (phytoestrogens), trans fats, pesticide residues, etc. which when combined with stressful lifestyles, over consumption, over prescribed antibiotics and sedentary lifestyles often cause the human animal to stop working as it should. Result - over sensitisation to dubious inputs (i.e. intolerances) followed by fully blown rejection of same (i.e. allergies).

Typically the conventional medical practitioner struggles to cope with any more than one or two concurrent problems in a patient. "This pill fixes this ailment". But when a patient presents with several interrelated problems with an often at best vague understanding of what is actually related to what the doctor is totally swamped and usually opts for the psychosomatic judgement, often after trying a few quick fixes which only succeeds in making the problem worse.

Granted that the third world person is often verging on starvation and unworried by food allergies and the like but then they aren't exposed to most of the 'progresses' in food technology that we are.