Amadeus, Your English is improving! > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:18:38 -0400, Richard Geller <[log in to unmask]> > 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