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