In a message dated 7/29/99 11:29:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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>
>  > So basically using or wearing latex is probably
>  > non-Paleo,
>  > and eating papaya or bananas might be rethought as
>  > well.
>
>  Latex gloves seems like a "no brainer" to me, but I
>  find it hard to accept papayas and bananas as being
>  "not paleo". Unless our ancestors were far more
>  sensitive to food reactions than we, and therefore
>  instinctively "knew" these foods were bad for them?
>  _____


A co-worker of mine is VERY allergic to latex.  For this
reason she avoids bananas like the plague...as well as
anything from the rubber tree family....Don't know if
she would have been allergic to bananas before she
became allergic to latex..she used to be an EMT..so
she was exposed to it constantly.  She avoids avocados
too..

Anna 8-)