{"id":33714,"date":"2019-05-09T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/?p=33714"},"modified":"2020-06-11T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:15:09","slug":"the-shocking-truth-about-food-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/articles\/expert-advice\/the-shocking-truth-about-food-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shocking Truth About Food Allergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33724 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/robyn13-610x915.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Everyone loves a story with a happy ending. When we are little, we are fed those stories, the Disney fantasies, and the happily-ever-after tales. But in real life, we don\u2019t always know how the story will end. I\u2019m very aware of this because I\u2019ve got a story to tell. I don\u2019t know how it ends, but the truth is, I\u2019m concerned. The story\u2019s about food, food allergies, and an incident that launched me on a new and very important endeavor. It\u2019s a personal story, but it\u2019s one that truly impacts all of us.<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #d4376b;\">MY LIFE COMPLETELY CHANGED DURING BREAKFAST ON A COLD JANUARY MORNING IN 2006<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s when everything I thought I knew about feeding my four little kids came to a screeching halt. It was like any other day. I thought nothing of the plate of scrambled eggs and maybe even less about the blue yogurt I served\u2026 that is, until our youngest started to fuss. I thought she was tired, so I put her down for a nap.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, which to this day I cannot explain, I went in to check on her. I found her face so swollen that her eyes and mouth had swelled shut. I raced her to the emergency room.\u201cThis looks like an allergic reaction,\u201d the pediatrician told me. \u201cWhat did you feed your kids for breakfast?\u201d And then she rattled off data on food allergies. For example, did you know that a life-threatening allergic reaction sends someone to the emergency room in North America once every three minutes? Or, that food allergies now affect one in 13 kids \u2013 two in every classroom? I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Later, I would learn more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If the food allergy community were a state, it would be the fifth largest state<\/strong> in the U.S. by population \u2013 right after California, Texas, New York, and Florida.<\/li>\n<li>The number of people with food allergies in the U.S. is higher than the entire population of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined.<strong> In Canada, one in 13 people suffers from food allergies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The number of people with allergies to peanuts has more than quadrupled since 1997.<\/strong>. And it isn\u2019t just peanuts \u2013 allergies to milk, soy, corn, and other foods are all increasing at record rates.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Centers for Disease Control, the rate of hospitalizations from food-related allergic reactions increased a staggering 265% from 1997 to 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the ER, my heart was pounding. As I watched my baby struggle to breathe, I wanted to understand what was happening to her. When the emergency had passed, and at last the swelling and the breathing difficulties had subsided, I felt my first glimmer of love-fueled determination. The feeling has only grown over the years. <em> Why do so many children now have life-threatening food allergies? Is it a major shift in genetics? Or is there something else going on?<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33718 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_WheatGraphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_WheatGraphic.png 868w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_WheatGraphic-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_WheatGraphic-768x144.png 768w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_WheatGraphic-610x115.png 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED ME FOR THE ANSWERS I WOULD UNCOVER<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In North America, we quickly learn that our food supply contains a lot of ingredients that did not exist 50 years ago \u2013 things such as artificial food dyes and synthetic growth hormones. <a href=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/articles\/nutrition\/rachel-parent-food-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In the 1950s farmers didn\u2019t use genetically engineered foods (GMOs).<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before having kids, I was an equity analyst on an all-male team that managed $20 billion in assets, and it was my job to cover the food industry sector. I knew that major food manufacturers had removed real ingredients from their products, and replaced them with fake ones to drive margins and profitability. I also learned that in other parts of the world, some ingredients (which had become commonplace in North America), were considered harmful and were not allowed to be sold within their borders.<\/p>\n<p>However, these products are only sold in North America and the consequences are clear:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that \u201csignificantly\u201d increases your risk of allergic disease.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cChildren born outside of North America had a significantly lower prevalence of any allergic diseases (20.3%) than those born in the United States (34.5%),\u201d<\/strong> said study author Jonathan Silverberg of St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/1681064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Source)<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2022 According to Reuters and Dr. Ruchi Gupta, who studies allergies at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, they have seen the difference between skyrocketing allergy rates in North America and relatively minor rates elsewhere, saying: <strong>\u201cWe see that people who come from other countries don\u2019t tend to have allergies.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You read that right! Food manufacturers in North America save the worst and cheapest ingredients for us! It\u2019s shocking. In all my years of studying the food industry, I\u2019d just never thought to ask what all of these fake ingredients might be doing to the health of North American families.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">That day with my daughter in the emergency room is when I resolved to find out.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The key question is whether we\u2019re increasingly allergic to our food, or whether we have developed allergies to what\u2019s been done to our food. With no labels on things like GMOs in the US and Canada, the biotech industry can claim that there is not a single documented case of these foods ever causing harm. Without labels, there\u2019s no traceability, so there is no data \u2013 yet, we see escalating rates of allergic reactions. Correlation is not causation. But there\u2019s clearly something going on, and it\u2019s having a widespread effect not just on people\u2019s health, but on the entire economy in North America.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious that ignoring the impact of the rising numbers of allergies is irresponsible. Thankfully, there are indications that the problem is being taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Many major companies are responding by marketing whole, real foods, the kind that pioneers of the natural health industry have been selling for over 70 years. Natural health stores were the first generation of companies to understand the enormous importance of providing access to healthy, real food, free of artificial ingredients, pesticides, and GMOs (genetically modified ingredients).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural health stores continue their work today, educating consumers on how to read labels and make better choices for their families, and larger corporations are following suit.<\/strong> Mondelez, formerly Kraft , recently acquired<em> Enjoy Life Foods<\/em>, a well-loved brand in the anti-allergy space. The company boasts products free of genetically engineered ingredients, allergens and artificial additives, and they are deeply aligned with the values of the food allergy community. This new megacorporation plans to grow Enjoy Life into a billion-dollar brand.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_InfoGraphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_InfoGraphic.png 422w, https:\/\/womensvoice.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Allergies_InfoGraphic-166x300.png 166w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/>Yes, as consumers speak out with their spending dollars, companies are listening.<\/strong> As many shoppers are opting out of artificial and genetically engineered ingredients, demanding cleaner food for themselves and their families, corporations such as <em>Target, Costco, Chipotle, Kroger, General Mills,<\/em> and <em>Cheerios<\/em> are responding with \u201cfree of\u201d products \u2013 free of allergens, dyes, GMOs, and artificial ingredients. At the same time, there\u2019s renewed corporate and consumer interest in seed and soil organizations such as <em><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seewhatgrows.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plant a Seed<\/a>,<\/span> Demeter, the Regenerative Organic Certification, B Lab<\/em>, and more. What\u2019s incredible is that this shift in business strategy isn\u2019t being driven by profit goals; it\u2019s driven by a desire to attract and retain a health-conscious consumer like you and me.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like my story is headed for a happy ending, doesn\u2019t it? It does, yet I remain concerned. Why? Because we need all hands on deck, not just a few isolated voices. Given what we\u2019re up against \u2013 multi-million dollar companies that have a strong interest in doing things the way they\u2019ve always done them \u2013 <strong>e will need to sustain the current level of pressure for many years to come, if we are to see the food allergy crisis trend downward.<\/strong> That day can\u2019t come fast enough for me, or for the mothers in North America whose children are threatened daily by allergy causing food.<\/p>\n<p>Like any parent whose child has been diagnosed with a food allergy, I went through a series of emotions: shock, grief, sadness, paralysis, and anger. What I thought motherhood would look like, differs greatly from what it has turned out to be for my family.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m different, too. That tragic breakfast changed me. Through the experience I found the courage and strength I did not know I had. I found the will to stand alone, do more, and with a combination of fear and love, to speak truth to power. \u201cPlease let my heart speak,\u201d I pray before each speech or public appearance, so that fewer will suffer, and ever-greater numbers of people will find their own voice to stand up and speak, and it\u2019s working. <strong>I have seen a community of love and incredible resources come together to help make the impossible possible.<\/strong> Countless organizations and groups have started because I found the courage to take the stage in Austin over <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rixyrCNVVGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 years ago to give a TEDx talk<\/a> <\/span>\u2013 and not b because it was Robyn O\u2019Brien\u2019s power as a speaker, but because my heart showed that love is more powerful than fear. Love, my friends, is rocket fuel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robyn O&#039;Brien | TEDxAustin 2011\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rixyrCNVVGA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/womensvoice.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When my daughter first had her allergic reaction 13 years ago, I was not prepared for any of this, but I found a way. I leaned on resources, and when I didn\u2019t find them, I created them. Just three years after my daughter\u2019s allergic reaction, I wrote a book on my research findings \u2013 <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Unhealthy-Truth-Shocking-Investigation-Americas\/dp\/0767930746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It<\/a><\/span> \u2013 published by Random House.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">That was 10 years ago. Much has changed, but much remains to be done.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Food allergies are not a \u201cniche\u201d problem. We need everyone\u2019s effort to stop this epidemic \u2013 from natural health stores to multinational food companies, and from the entrepreneurs who develop better food products to the private equity groups who fund them. It\u2019s everybody\u2019s job to solve this problem. We need to <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><a style=\"color: #99cc00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bvh_xXulCQy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#rethinkfood<\/a><\/span>. The future of our children\u2019s health, our country\u2019s economy as well as our shared quality of life depend on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Remember that courage is contagious. When you do brave things, it inspires others to do the same.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves a story with a happy ending. When we are little, we are fed those stories, the Disney fantasies, and the happily-ever-after tales. But in real life, we don\u2019t always know how the story will end. I\u2019m very aware of this because I\u2019ve got a story to tell. 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