Back to Sains moans we we have our 3 grandchildren with us at the moment, one has a very severe peanut allergy. There were several products we used to be able to get that were fine for her. My OH did online order checked the website carefully. When some items came there was a warning on the front "Allergy update" on the back of course now "not suitable for nut allergy sufferers due to manufacturing methods". She spent over an hour trying to get hold of customer services, when she eventually got through started to get the usual "sorry for any inconvenience" claptrap. She had to state again this is life threatening, if the website had been up to date we would not have ordered the items. Its bad enough that the list of things she cannot have grows by the month, but we end up spending hours reading & checking everything to see if it's changed. Why are so many manufacturers doing this, some used to keep separate production lines for nut free products, it seems fewer & few are willing to do this -it is so dangerous.
Hubby is a chef and he reckons that a lot of things are changing just because they fear being sued should something go wrong. It could also bee that they have introduced a new line which contains nuts and have to be very careful. Must be awful to have something so severe. I've got a sulphite allergy which is limiting to say the least but it won't kill me.. just makes me cough (obviously not a good thing in the current climate)
I have had the opposite problem of trying to put weight on. After a serious illness I had to put half a stone on to reach the minimum weight for my build. Trying to find healthy food that would make me put the weight on was almost impossible. It has taken two and a half years but I have finally done it.
My dad was 6 ' 2" and weight 9 stone 10 lb! Unfortunately I follow my mother's side of the family. When he was ill, in the days when bed rest was believed to be the cure for all ills, the hospital managed to get him up to just over 10 stone - after 3 months. Within days of being mobile again he was back to his normal weight.
Back in the day, when I used to go the the gym 3 or 4 times a week, and running on other evenings, the instructor at the gym decided to check my weight against their chart. I was 13 stone which according to him was 2 stone over weight. I asked him where all the fat was? There was none in those days, but I'm not claiming the same now.
If you go purely by BMI a lot of the worlds athletes will be overweight. A guy that I work with weight lifts and is about 5ft 6 and 18 stone, no fat just muscle but on that scale his BMI is over 40 and he's obese
Why do men spot trains or collect beer mats or aspire to grow the biggest inedible vegetable? On another gardening-related theme, it would be interesting to discover the percentage of males versus females who have a pristine,trim - it- with-a-comb and scissors-lawn.
Anyone else's garden looking 50 shades of dead? Apart from one or two notable exceptions, everything in the ground has gone over or given up. We could do with some water down here.
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On another gardening-related theme, it would be interesting to discover the percentage of males versus females who have a pristine,trim - it- with-a-comb and scissors-lawn.
We could do with some water down here.