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Author: Sam <samuelfrost@tuta.io>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:42:45 +0100

added blogpost on allergies

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diff --git a/blog/.childrens-food.md b/blog/.childrens-food.md @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +--- +title: Children's Food +date: 2022-08-21 15:00 +--- + +*This blogpost was written by a 70 year old Kentish woman, if you would like to +hear more from here, please attend the next local council meeting at Tunbridge +Wells* + +In the early 2010s Jamie Oliver launched a crusade against unhealthy +food in British schools, with the most famous battle being against +"turkey twizzlers", a disguting highly processed perversion of turkey +that's more suited to the dingiest kebab shop than a school lunch hall. +The majority of people would say that he won, and that school lunches are +no4w healthy, saved from the dangers of trans-fats and sugary drinks. +They are wrong in thinking so, it only requires a brief look into the +average secondary school to see that children are still fed processed +rubbish at extortionate prices that would make a stadium hot dog salesman +blush. Pizza, burgers, fried chicken, and chips are staple foods, and whilst +healthier options are available, what teenager is going to choose a soggy +piece of bland chicken over a burger? + +< It is not enough to just provide healthier +altenatives when children are conserned, they lack willpower and understanding +and so must be guided into making the correct choices. > + +You'd think that most parents +would be outraged to find out that their children ate junk food for every +meal at school this week, but most parents don't care, in fact, many were +actually outraged that Jamie Oliver dare to try and improve the diet of our +nation's growingly obese children. + +< There is a trend that permeates throughout all +of parenting, the strong belief in the right to raise children poorly. > + +The fact of the matter is that most +children eat like this at home too, being fed frozen potatoes in the shape +of a smiley face on a daily basis. It often being one of the only things they +will actually eat, children are fed so poorly from the beginning of their life +that they end up with a natural aversion to any real food. There are a miriad +of so-called "picky eaters", fully grown adults who will only eat a small +selection of foods, like some form of autistic child. When these children +stop breast feeding (if they were even breast fed at all) they are thrown straight +onto a diet of frozen zogslop. No more smaller plates of what their parents are +eating. This is either the cause of, or direct result of, families no longer +eating together. When you start preparing different meals, people will no longer +eat at the same time, or is it that because people want different meals they can +no longer eat at the same time? Something about geese and chickens. Either way, +the dinner table is no longer a place for the family to all be together at the +same time. I can understand how this isn't always possible however, my Dad used to +work shifts, and so wouldn't be at dinner 1/3 of the time, for many that's the +reality of working every day, if you finish at 9, you can't expect your young +children to wait until then to eat. + + + +I always thought lactose intolerance was something made up by the American media, +some strange milk related disease given to the nerdy kid to add to his +humiliation, for I had never in my entire life met someone who was lactose +intolerant. In recent years however, rates of lactose intolerance, and other +allergies to completely normal foods like eggs, have risen dramatically here in +Britain. Unlike in America, where people often have a rather mixed heritage, +often with Africans or natives, here in Britain these allergies are coming from +white children with no family history of such things. Where are these allergies +coming from? At first I thought this may be due to increased use of formula, +but it's hard to make any conclusions on the data that I've found: Initial +breastfeeding in 6-8 weeks has gone up by a conciderable amount in the past two +decades, this seems to drop off exponentially though, with rates of children +being breastfed up to 6 months is remarkably low at just 1%, +whilst in countries such as Norway it's over 70%. Breastfeeding, although +certainly a positive, is probably not the cause of this, as multiple studies in +Sweden have found increasing allergies amongst children, specifically to milk and +eggs. Similar things have been found in Australia (with similarly high rates of +breastfeeding to Norway and Sweden) where children are five times +as likely to have allergies as adults. + +The hygiene hypothesis is a rather popular one, that we are simply too cleanly +these days, and that we wrap our children up in bubble wrap so much, that the +second they set food outside they start sneezing. This hypothesis has some 30 +years of research behind it, with lots of mixed results. One that I found +interesting however was that children with pets were significantly more likely +to not have allergies. (There are many saying this is due to covid, however this +trend has been going on for over a decade now). + +Maybe there is some horrible chemical in both formula and normal food which passes +into the breastmilk which is causing all this. Maybe the rapeseed oil haters are +correct. Maybe the microplastics which are undoubtedly in the cows and chickens +are causing all this. + +Another interesting thing to note is that children are likely to grow out of milk +and egg allergies much more than something like a peanut or shellfish allergy, +which may mean this will become something common like eczma, +which children tend to grow out of. + +*This was originally meant to be the second half of the blogpost written by the +lovely Kentish lady, however I didn't feel they really fit together so I separated +them. I didn't cite any sources because I'm lazy :3* + +> bad food at schoools +> bad food at home +> allergies - too sterile? covid? bad food? +> picky eating +> "children's food" - i.e. crap +> Families not eating together anymore +> fake food allergies diff --git a/blog/allergies.md b/blog/allergies.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: Allergies in children +date: 2022-08-22 19:45 +--- + +I always thought lactose intolerance was something made up by the American media, +some strange milk related disease given to the nerdy kid to add to his +humiliation, for I had never in my entire life met someone who was lactose +intolerant. In recent years however, rates of lactose intolerance, and other +allergies to completely normal foods like eggs, have risen dramatically here in +Britain. Unlike in America, where people often have a rather mixed heritage, +often with Africans or natives, here in Britain these allergies are coming from +white children with no family history of such things. Where are these allergies +coming from? At first I thought this may be due to increased use of formula, +but it's hard to make any conclusions on the data that I've found: Initial +breastfeeding in 6-8 weeks has gone up by a conciderable amount in the past two +decades, this seems to drop off exponentially though, with rates of children +being breastfed up to 6 months is remarkably low at just 1%, +whilst in countries such as Norway it's over 70%. Breastfeeding, although +certainly a positive, is probably not the cause of this, as multiple studies in +Sweden have found increasing allergies amongst children, specifically to milk and +eggs. Similar things have been found in Australia (with similarly high rates of +breastfeeding to Norway and Sweden) where children are five times +as likely to have allergies as adults. + +The hygiene hypothesis is a rather popular one, that we are simply too cleanly +these days, and that we wrap our children up in bubble wrap so much, that the +second they set food outside they start sneezing. This hypothesis has some 30 +years of research behind it, with lots of mixed results. One that I found +interesting however was that children with pets were significantly more likely +to not have allergies. (There are many saying this is due to covid, however this +trend has been going on for over a decade now). + +Maybe there is some horrible chemical in both formula and normal food which passes +into the breastmilk which is causing all this. Maybe the rapeseed oil haters are +correct. Maybe the microplastics which are undoubtedly in the cows and chickens +are causing all this. + +Another interesting thing to note is that children are likely to grow out of milk +and egg allergies much more than something like a peanut or shellfish allergy, +which may mean this will become something common like eczma, +which children tend to grow out of. + +*This was originally meant to be the second half of the blogpost written by the +lovely Kentish lady, however I didn't feel they really fit together so I separated +them. I didn't cite any sources because I'm lazy :3*