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patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Theories I have heard mention a desire to be in with the cool peanut-allergic crowd. I guess that is actually just one theory I have heard. All the little socialites-in-training running around the UWS with their D&G Epi-pens.

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Anne Elk · 10-11-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Theories I have heard mention a desire to be in with the cool peanut-allergic crowd. I guess that is actually just one theory I have heard. All the little socialites-in-training running around the UWS with their D&G Epi-pens.

Really? I'm in a cool crowd? Unfortunately my Epi-Pen is from CVS. I'll have to check with my doctor on upgrading to the designer version.

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Really? I'm in a cool crowd? Unfortunately my Epi-Pen is from CVS. I'll have to check with my doctor on upgrading to the designer version.

It was bees I think, right? that you are allergic to.

Pretty Little Flower · 10-11-2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally posted by John Phoenix
Made up or not, this is one of the best scientific advances in the last 100 years:

Yeah, it makes you sound like a hip tree hugger type when you order a soy latte, but, in reality, you do it so that you don't have to run to the bathroom within 10 seconds of drinking a few sips of the version made with real milk and forgetting to load up on the scientific goodness above.

There was an interesting article in the NYT a while back about how lactose tolerance is actually a fairly recently-evolved trait. There were other interesting parts to the article, but I have since forgotten them since I believe they conflicted with my belief that there is no such thing as lactose-intolerance, except inside the imaginations of the supposedly-lactose-intolerant.

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
There was an interesting article in the NYT a while back about how lactose tolerance is actually a fairly recently-evolved trait. There were other interesting parts to the article, but I have since forgotten them since I believe they conflicted with my belief that there is no such thing as lactose-intolerance, except inside the imaginations of the supposedly-lactose-intolerant.

soy is bad for you as well.

http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/soynorris

Pretty Little Flower · 10-11-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Really? I'm in a cool crowd? Unfortunately my Epi-Pen is from CVS. I'll have to check with my doctor on upgrading to the designer version.

Are you kidding me? The right Epi-pen can get you into parties with Paris and Lohan.

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Are you kidding me? The right Epi-pen can get you into parties with Paris and Lohan.

You know, it used to be blood in a vial. That was okay enough for Angelina.

You've just upped the ante.

Pretty Little Flower · 10-11-2007, 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
soy is bad for you as well.

Yes, this is true. Soy is bad for you. That is why everyone in the fucking world eats products made from soy.

Nice - you edit your post to add a link to an article establishing that, for certain people with certain medical characteristics, it is inconclsive whether soy is bad for you.

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:23 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Yes, this is true. Soy is bad for you. That is why everyone in the fucking world eats products made from soy.

soy contributes to breast cancer. so unless you have man boobs that are not erased by your avid biking.........

is there something you are not telling us?

Pretty Little Flower · 10-11-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
soy contributes to breast cancer. so unless you have man boobs that are not erased by your avid biking.........

is there something you are not telling us?

Did you even read the article you linked? Here is a helpful quote:

"There is a debate about whether soy prevents or causes breast cancer."

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-11-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
The cackling passive-aggressive secretary who sits outside my door is going in for her gastric-bypass surgery tomorrow. She's very excited and won't stop talking about it. Loudly. Actually, we all are pretty excited. It's an exciting time in my little corner of the world.

If you want to stop the cackling, bring up the death rate of that surgery. Or, if you're subtle, mention Charlie Weis.

Replaced_Texan · 10-11-2007, 05:26 PM

*sigh*

In happier news, the weather finally turned, I have figured out a kick ass costume for the insane Halloween party I'm going to, and I'm going to LA to see the hot guy I met at Burning Man next weekend.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-11-2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Finally. I didn't think it was possible, but your ignorance and arrogance on this topic (among all the others I let slide by) has sent me over the edge.

Do know that an allergy to peanuts is life threatening?
Do you know that for some people, that the aroma of peanuts is enough to set off the reaction?
Do you know how quickly a reaction sets in?
How it starts?
How it progresses?
How quickly the Epi-Pen must be administered in order for it to have a chance at helping stop/slow the reaction?

Would you willingly sit there and watch a child die?

Would you ever call 911 if someone was in need of emergency aid, or would you sit there laughing at the typical neurotic whacked out on prozac victim?

Anne Elk
Proud Epi-Pen carrier since 1988
(and yes, I've had to use it)

What I want to know is just how many kids have severe reactions to peanut products. According to this website: http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm#statistics , approximately 125 people die each year in the USA secondary to food-induced anaphylaxis. I did not read far enough to figure out how many of those people die from peanut exposure. And I certainly wouldn't want anyone who is severely allergic to have to suffer.

But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts. My kid's school is apparently peanut-free, but I don't think there are any kids there who are deathly allergic. In fact, since it has never, ever been an issue, it totally slipped my mind that the school was peanut-free.

Do public schools have these policies? Or do kids who are allergic to peanuts have to go to private, peanut-free schools? Maybe this increases the number of allergic kids at private schools equipped to monitor peanut consumption?

It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that schools declare themselves to be peanut-free, whether or not they have any kids with peanut allergies that year. And once you're known as a peanut-free school, you have to maintain in case a parent with a child allergic to peanuts wants to enroll their child.

But I will tell you this: There are 100s of lunatic parents at my kid's school who overreact to everything in an effort to shield their child from absolutely anything they can think of. And I think 80% of the kids are on some kind of behavioral modification drug, as are their parents. It is truly amazing. If my daughter didn't love the place so much (what coddled, overprotected child wouldn't?) and if it wasn't necessary she go there for other reasons, I would yank her out of there so fast, her head would spin.

TM

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What I want to know is just how many kids have severe reactions to peanut products. According to this website: http://www.allerg.qc.ca/peanutallergy.htm#statistics , approximately 125 people die each year in the USA secondary to food-induced anaphylaxis. I did not read far enough to figure out how many of those people die from peanut exposure. And I certainly wouldn't want anyone who is severely allergic to have to suffer.

But I have never met anyone whose kid was that allergic to peanuts. My kid's school is apparently peanut-free, but I don't think there are any kids there who are deathly allergic. In fact, since it has never, ever been an issue, it totally slipped my mind that the school was peanut-free.

Do public schools have these policies? Or do kids who are allergic to peanuts have to go to private, peanut-free schools? Maybe this increases the number of allergic kids at private schools equipped to monitor peanut consumption?

It seems to me (and I could be wrong) that schools declare themselves to be peanut-free, whether or not they have any kids with peanut allergies that year. And once you're known as a peanut-free school, you have to maintain in case a parent with a child allergic to peanuts wants to enroll their child.

But I will tell you this: There are 100s of lunatic parents at my kid's school who overreact to everything in an effort to shield their child from absolutely anything they can think of. And I think 80% of the kids are on some kind of behavioral modification drug, as are their parents. It is truly amazing. If my daughter didn't love the place so much (what coddled, overprotected child wouldn't?) and if it wasn't necessary she go there for other reasons, I would yank her out of there so fast, her head would spin.

TM

OKAY SO everyone jump on TM now for saying the lunatic parents paragraph. Bueller? Bueller? because what he said was essentially what I said.

That is what I meant. It was a chi chi Day School Informational Seminar. Those parents GRAVITATE TO those types of schools.

I bel. in public school the school nurse is sufficient she has the epi pens and the teacher may. But it is not peanut free.

Anne Elk · 10-11-2007, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Are you kidding me? The right Epi-pen can get you into parties with Paris and Lohan.

I'm not sure those are the kinds of parties I want to be going to. If you want to go, I can send you my expired Epi-Pen. I doubt they'll be checking expiration dates at the door.