Food allergies and sensitivities

[senior citizen]

Pizza Hut - Nutritional Information - Food Allergens and Sensitivities (http://www.pizzahut.com/foodallergies.html)

Keep scrolling down on Pizza Hut chart to see all of the ingredients that can cause sensitivity and allergies.........

Unbelievable.

I was checking for "flavor enhansors".......they get hidden in there.

[Villages PL]

That's a good observation and it's worthwhile pointing it out because, otherwise, many people would never bother to look. Pizza tastes good but can have undesirable consequences for many consumers.

The last time I had pizza was about 10 years ago. I went with a friend for "all-you-can-eat" pizza and salad, and we both felt unwell afterward. Since that experience, my friend no longer eats dairy because it makes her head feel stuffy. And I stopped eating pizza because it made me feel uncomfortable, like I had a big indigestable lump in my stomach. And I have since come to realize that pizza likely has more of a destructive impact on health than otherwise.

More about pizza as related to commercial interests:
Prevention magazine is giving away a free health book with every new subscription. This book, "Healing Foods", presents pizza as a health food because it contains tomato sause and basil (topping). And Prevention magazine gives this book praise for being "complete and authoritative".

It just proves that magazines, like newspapers, are primarily dedicated to making money. Not that there's anything bad about making money, but the result is often faulty or incomplete information about health.

Conclusion: The fast-food industry has a lot of money to spend on promotion and money is power. Money must have something to do with it, why else would a supposedly reputable source elevate pizza to the status of being a health food? (Think: white flour, high levels of sturated fat and sodium.)

[NotGolfer]

Read the book "Wheat Belly" and you'll get an idea of the probable reasons folks have food issues. It was enlightening to say the least!

[senior citizen]

That's a good observation and it's worthwhile pointing it out because, otherwise, many people would never bother to look. Pizza tastes good but can have undesirable consequences for many consumers.

The last time I had pizza was about 10 years ago. I went with a friend for "all-you-can-eat" pizza and salad, and we both felt unwell afterward. Since that experience, my friend no longer eats dairy because it makes her head feel stuffy. And I stopped eating pizza because it made me feel uncomfortable, like I had a big indigestable lump in my stomach. And I have since come to realize that pizza likely has more of a destructive impact on health than otherwise.

More about pizza as related to commercial interests:
Prevention magazine is giving away a free health book with every new subscription. This book, "Healing Foods", presents pizza as a health food because it contains tomato sause and basil (topping). And Prevention magazine gives this book praise for being "complete and authoritative".

It just proves that magazines, like newspapers, are primarily dedicated to making money. Not that there's anything bad about making money, but the result is often faulty or incomplete information about health.

Conclusion: The fast-food industry has a lot of money to spend on promotion and money is power. Money must have something to do with it, why else would a supposedly reputable source elevate pizza to the status of being a health food? (Think: white flour, high levels of sturated fat and sodium.)

https://www.enlita.com/blog/effect-msg-fast-food-kentucky-fried-chicken

I "hear you"........it's not just pizza either........
Besides the big pizza “chains” other fast food places that use MSG which is a neurotoxin........or food additives that may contain MSG or "excitotoxins"....are KFC and many others........

p.s. Not all pizzas are created equal; while the big chains like Pizza Hut, Dominos, etc. use all the “junk”,
one might just find a little private owner that still makes pizza the old fashioned way............

We have such a place in our town where they make their own marinara sauce, use a good quality mozarella, make a New York Style Pizza......just steer clear of the pepperoni........old fashioned dough.....but no doubt it has gluten or glutamate in it.......can't win.

[senior citizen]

Read the book "Wheat Belly" and you'll get an idea of the probable reasons folks have food issues. It was enlightening to say the least!

http://www.msgtruth.org/avoid.htm


I did read it awhile back........enlightening indeed.

Besides the "new" wheat........unlike the wheat of old.......
I'm concerned about the neurotoxins, etc. in foods that average folks eat.

Whether these additives are called excitotoxins, neurotoxins, flavor enhansors, etc. or various hydrogylized protein, etc., etc., etc. none sound very healthy for any of us.................but they are in all processed or fast foods and lots of restaurant chains use them..............not just Pizza Hut and KFC.

No wonder people have all these hard to diagnose modern day ills.......

CLICK ABOVE HYPERLINK for what foods to avoid (keep scrolling down..........it's mind boggling, to say the least)

I just read it all over again..........you have to scroll down beyond the colored food charts.....how the food industry tries to sneak in all these new neurotoxins is crazy.
Also, I always thought Applebees food was strange...........you would "feel it" after you eat it. Sometimes when traveling, we just end up at an Applebees..........
all their food is very high in flavor enhansers...........

[senior citizen]

Cooking to Control Pain: Flavor Enhancers - Diet - Chronic Pain (http://www.healthcentral.com/chronic-pain/c/23153/134410/enhancers/)


How to eliminate fibromyalgia pain and other pain simply by eliminating flavor enhancers in processed and frozen foods........


Stauffers is one big culprit.........as are so many others..........

[Villages PL]

Read the book "Wheat Belly" and you'll get an idea of the probable reasons folks have food issues. It was enlightening to say the least!

Thanks, I'll put it on my reading list.

[Quixote]

We all know what MSG is. How many of us know that when we see "Flavor Enhancers" and even "Natural Flavors," that means MSG? How many of us realize that "sugar" in its natural form has essentially vanished from our lives and has been replaced by "high-fructose corn syrup" about which I won't even comment but urge readers to Google this product and read themselves....

Does anyone stop to wonder why all of a sudden there are people who must eat only gluten-free foods, who cannot eat dairy products because they're lactose-intolerant, who can sicken and possibly even die from exposure to even the barest bit of peanuts. Why was this not true for our parents' generation and those before theirs? Let's not even get into the existence of growing numbers of different kinds of cancers....

Foods now require a "shelf life," meaning all too often a degree of processing, whether it's bleaching the life out of flour or genetically modifying tomatoes with fish genes, is necessary to avoid too rapid spoilage. We're no longer down on the farm growing and picking and even slaughtering our own. While it's true that "best if used by [date]" is not the same as "turns into poison on [date]," do your own homework and find out what processing food to give it a shelf life does to the "stuff" (for lack of a better word) that we are presented with to put into our bodies!

[NotGolfer]

The doctor who wrote Wheat Belly...says processed foods (much of the middle aisles in the grocery stores), wheat and sugar have affected the folks in our country adversely. Years ago I was having some dietary, digestion issues when my practioner at the time ordered tests for food allergies. It was enlightening to me what I was sensitive to.....soy being one, yeast another and more. When I'd deviate from my food plan I'd relapse to IBS issues and feeling really awful. So when I read Wheat Belly I knew I needed to get back to a program that would help me feel better. I will attest that this "food plan" works for me!! :pepper2: To be sure, it's a life-style and not a "diet". One has to read labels as there are many hidden sugars in foods...along with other additives to make them taste good. So it's back to actually planning and cooking as our mothers and grandmothers did. You can eat out but planning there as well.

[senior citizen]

We all know what MSG is. How many of us know that when we see "Flavor Enhancers" and even "Natural Flavors," that means MSG? How many of us realize that "sugar" in its natural form has essentially vanished from our lives and has been replaced by "high-fructose corn syrup" about which I won't even comment but urge readers to Google this product and read themselves....

Does anyone stop to wonder why all of a sudden there are people who must eat only gluten-free foods, who cannot eat dairy products because they're lactose-intolerant, who can sicken and possibly even die from exposure to even the barest bit of peanuts. Why was this not true for our parents' generation and those before theirs? Let's not even get into the existence of growing numbers of different kinds of cancers....

Foods now require a "shelf life," meaning all too often a degree of processing, whether it's bleaching the life out of flour or genetically modifying tomatoes with fish genes, is necessary to avoid too rapid spoilage. We're no longer down on the farm growing and picking and even slaughtering our own. While it's true that "best if used by [date]" is not the same as "turns into poison on [date]," do your own homework and find out what processing food to give it a shelf life does to the "stuff" (for lack of a better word) that we are presented with to put into our bodies!

Excellent post. Yes, we all know what MSG is . However, many today still eat in these chain restaurants which use various flavor enhansors and such. This below link to a worthwhile article, one worth reading again......

What Foods Should I Avoid? (http://www.msgtruth.org/avoid.htm)


Worth repeating. “What Foods Should I Avoid?”