[Sca-cooks] Article: Feasting with Food Allergies

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Druighad at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Also, be aware that people have very different allergies. My nephew is highly
> > allegic to red food dye. ALL red food dye. He can't even eat red fruits and
> > veggies. The reaction is hyper activity followed by extreme blood sugar loss.
> > But he's not diabetic. Take a five year old, completely overdose them on
> > sugar, and let them run around for 24 hours. See how cranky they get when
> > they run out of energy? That's the kind of thing that happens. But reverse
> > metabolism is part and parcel of it. Coffee calms him down.
>
> Since I'm not a doctor, you will presumably take this with a grain of
> salt, but this sounds like what somebody has probably called a classic
> case of mild ADD (has anybody noticed that there are no longer any
> hyperactive children on the planet, only ADD ones?) that the Feingold
> Association would be interested in. But then it also sounds like this
> child's parents have already determined the dietary causes, so... .
>

Actually, my cousin had the same reaction to food colorings. After months
of isolation diets, turned out she's allergic. Me, I specifically can't
eat red food dye. Gives me panic attacks in quantity, in smaller amounts
it makes me very edgy, nervous, paranoid, claustrophobic, anxious, and
emotionally fragile. So, no foods with red food coloring, and there are a
lot more than you'd ordinarily think.

Margaret FitzWilliam