Amadeus,

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> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:18:38 -0400, Richard Geller
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> wrote:
>
>
> I wrote:
> >> I am allergic to meat.
> >> Really. :-) Not a joke.
> >>
> >What kind of test was it, Amadeus?
>
> A blood test.
> The doctor who made it said she choosed (CHOSE) this test
out of several available,
> because it was rather reliable and didn't produce "too
much positive
> results" because otherwise (as for many other tests) there
would be "not
> much  left to eat".
>
> I didn't experience any problems with my allergens so far,
> except one strange effect after eating raw soy sprouts.
>
> However I recall that I've never liked hazelnuts and tofu
too much
> as opposed to other nuts. Tofu I empasized at some time
more "on purpose"
> and because I had the idea to found (TRY?) a tofu plant.
>
> Yesterday my father mentioned that I didn't like meat very
much at young
> ages. I (HE recalled)  recall that I used to pick out meat
to eat from the rest, but well I
> don't recall it tasted very good. I recall that pepper
steak tasted very
> good, but I think it was more the sauce.
>
> It looks as if such "instintual" (you may forgive me to
use your adjective
> Jean-Claude) preferrences have been based on some feelings
of "not so well
> beeing" or similar.
>
> >
> >Food allergy tests are notoriously wrong. Food breaks
down in the digestive
> >system, obviously, and so it is very difficult to test
using standard skin
> >tests, for instance, because the digestive intermediary
chemistry is not
> >taken into account.
>
> Some very strange but IMO very important reason seems to
cause that food
> proteins sometimes don't digest completely and then even
enter into the
> bloodstream where they cause antobody reactions of course.
And much further
> damage (auto imun diseases).
> Somehow there were antibodies against some meat protein
(or a part of it?)
> found in my blood.
> And that after 10 years of not eating any meat -when the
test was made.
>
> I whish I'd know more about the fault that lets proteins
enter the
> bloodstream...
>
> Regards Amadeus