Lol, this is true. My dear best friend gets mad at me for drinking Gatorade to balance my electrolytes, because "it's so bad for you, poison", buuuut, it works and the healthier alternatives don't, and actually make me sicker, sooo... 🤣
BUT if you're curious, apparently artificial scent usage...
It's because those foods have parts that have a very similar structure to latex, but they don't actually contain latex. I.e., you're extra sensitive to latex and anything your body thinks might be latex. :')
I have a latex sensitivity (I love guac, but it upsets my tummy), my dad has an allergy, as do my husband and his dad. Hubby is also allergic to pistachios (and raw apples and a lot of raw vegetables and watermelon, and birch [which is related to apples] and hay etc etc). I had no idea that...
Yeah, that's kind of what I was saying, it's totally possible to achieve those things. It's just that those ways aren't the cheapest, and don't work so well on a huge commercial scale (almost like tight-knit, local communities doing it themselves was better or something, lol!).
Yeah, all the hubbub about "factory farming is cruel", etc, needs more direction I feel like. A huge portion of those farms are really awful, but of course not all. It seems like people get caught up in the outskirts of it and decide all of it is bad in all of the ways, then it becomes a whole...
I get it, I'm sorry you feel that way. There are things in my life too, that would really upset me to have someone even indirectly hint that I should be associated with even if it wasn't strictly directed at me, so I do understand how you feel.
I hope you can get some good rest in sometime soon...
Ooh, kind of related, I used to have a lactose intolerance. I drank lactose free milk for a really long time, but I got addicted to it because in order to make it "lactose free", they just pumped it FULL of lactase, which is a sugar. So I was addicted to it, and the sugar was destroying my gut...
Oh, wow, that's interesting!
There are so many examples of that, I feel like, where store bought milk or commercially produced flours cause a lot of issues for people, but the "real" stuff is perfectly fine! Our food is so lacking, it's sad.
Oh noo! That really sucks! It was so complicated when I had to go gluten free to figure out all the things I could and couldn't have, I couldn't imagine having to navigate around eggs, too. They're in practically everything!
Just to be clear, you don't think I'm actually antagonizing you, right? The general mood of this thread has been light hearted and teasing, and I am following suit. It seems in the past you've also gotten a little upset with me for joining in on such things, and I'm really not sure why at all. :(
Ay, the days of "this thing I have to do is boring, so I'm going to go liven it up with other things I have to do...". 😅 Ugghh, lol. I found that doing "20/10s" helped my general creativity. You work for 20 mins, then take 10 mins off. It was a great motivator, because we could technically stack...