"john" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

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Martin, you have here a mixture of anecdotes and assertions that would
require a lot of checking. If you have legitimate research to back up the
general assertions, I'll be glad to take a look at them. As for the
anecdotes, I knew a kid who died from peanut allergy, but we still have
peanuts. I guess that means the world can't be made safe for everyone,
all the time.

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Ed Huntress


Ed,

A lot of stuff is antidotal but much of it has a basis in truth. I know
for a fact that sodium Benzoate causes my digestive system problems. I
stay away from it but sometimes it is impossible. I ate some potato
sailed with it in and had gas for two days. I never get gas even when I
eat chile with beans. Another one is calcium propionate in baked goods
and a bunch of other stuff. I break out with white pimples if I eat any
quantity of stuff that has it in it. Beef is another problem. Sometimes
it will make hands and feet swell up, sometimes it won't. When we had our
own home grown beef I never had the problem. Another problem I have
noticed since I was young was that anything with corn surrup in it would
make my muscles stiff the next day. I almost never have stiff muscles
since I try to stay away from corn surrup and any corn product.
Another thing I have found is that if I drink at lest two quarts of water
a day I feel a lot better than if I don't.

These are just my personal observations over the many years. They work
for me. The other thing I have found is that if I lift too much my back
hurts..... Warning to all you young guys... take care of your back and
don't try to prove how strong you are. My father would always tell me
to take care of my knees... My knees are in great shape, its my back that
gives me a pain now and then.

And I double up in agony, in a fetal position, if I eat anything sweetened
with sorbitol. 'Same with monosodium glutamate. Most people don't react as
violently to those chemicals, if at all. So what should we do about it?
That's the question.

We probably could find a reason to outlaw most foods and additives if we
based it on anecdotes, John. I sympathize with your reaction to beef but
you'll have to pry those T-bones out of my cold, dead hands. d8-)

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Ed Huntress