It's not really a surprise though.
Years ago, people used a lot more fresh produce than they do now. There is probably a generation of kids who don't know how to cook, believing instead that to cook something like, a sheppards pie, all you have to do is remove the film-lid and put it in the over for half an hour.

All of those additives and preservatives have got to be the cause of a lot of these allergies.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:36, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

personal experience though
dairy doesn't agree with my mrs, and wheat doesn't agree with my bro's mrs, and both were brought up in the home cooking, no readymeal environment that I was
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)

Another point of view could be that these have always been around
and we are just diagnosing them now.

I'm going with the soft shite view though
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:37, Reply)

see, I wondered about your first point
but I'm not so sure.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:39, Reply)

soft shite is just one of the many symptoms.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:39, Reply)

Or maybe, as conditions and medicine improve, people feel better in general and therefore notice when something makes them feel bad?
Plus there's the whole it's-not-killing-you-these-days-so-you-get-the-chance-to-pass-on-your-shoddy-genes-to-your-offspring aspect.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:39, Reply)

that sounds like the sensible argument
but surely it doesn't take much to think "hmm, every time I drink milk I feel like I'm going to burst"

what probably happened is that in the past people were more inclined to keep their fucking moaning to themselves, and not feel the need to slap a label on it.

the only good thing about it is that coeliac is a bit like coelacanth
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 14 Mar 2011, 14:44, Reply)