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Tips & Advice On Dealing With Food Intolerances

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Is there a worse food allergy than corn?

I am allergic to corn and American foods are filled with different types of corn. Corn syrup in the buns of hamburgers, corn in condiments, corn syrup in American cheese, corn syrup in bread, and everything you take for granted everyday. There are TONS of derivatives. On top of that I am lactose-intolerant. I am convinced that corn is the worst food allergy to have. (Worse than wheat. Wheat allergies are known. There are lots of gluten-free foods marketed).

Soy. If one person has to avoid soybean oil as well as soy lecithin, it pretty much becomes a pain. Almost every restaurant fries and cooks with vegetable oil (soybean oil) or soybean oil. So, that leaves everything that fried and cooked off the menu for you. All processed breads and baked good contain soybean oil or soy flour, even the “100% whole wheat” and organic breads. Every single chocolate bar out there has soy lecithin as well as every single chewing gum that you find at a gas station (if you want gum be willing to hash out 3.99 for a small pack that you can order online.) Soy is also hidden in the term “natural flavors” which many companies, when you ask what the natural flavors is, tell you that it is “proprietary information.” So, avoiding everything with natural flavors, unless you are willing to experiment is a HASSLE! All chips except for the typical Lays potato and Frito’s are unsafe. Soy, like corn, is a cheap filler in many things, and so they put it in everything. They even put it in Noxzema. Soy is hard to avoid because it’s hidden in so many things. Even ink, cardboard, and glue. I wouldn’t say soy is any harder to avoid than corn, just because thank God, I’m not allergic to corn, and I don’t know what that all entails, but I would say soy would be up there with corn. My allergist did say that the top allergens that are very hard to live with would be soy and corn, then wheat and dairy right beneath it.

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