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Sahmbahdeh
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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:24 am
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| Sakura-Alchemist wrote: | I'm gluten intolerant, it cause widespread inflammation when I eat it as my body creates an antibody that reacts to the protein. So no it's not a fad but many people treat it as such.
| Quote: | | There is not much good science in this field, as reports of gluten issues are a pretty recent phenomenon, so we don't know for sure why that is and what we're doing differently than other countries. However, agricultural practices in different countries do vary. |
No we know fairly cut and dry why this is. In the US we have hybridized wheat to have more gluten and outside of the US they have not. More Gluten = More reaction, less gluten = less reaction. |
That's a pretty strong claim, do you have a source on that?
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tsukikage85
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 11:24 am
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God help you if you're a native Japanese with celiac disease...
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Juno016
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 2:52 pm
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| tsukikage85 wrote: | | God help you if you're a native Japanese with celiac disease... |
The first time I heard about Celiac disease, it was in Japan. I met someone there with it and when I invited him to a restaurant, he turned it around and invited me to another restaurant that accommodated his needs. He told me it's not a big deal as long as you know what to avoid. He doesn't shop at stores that package goods and usually shops at local shops that grow/make their own food and who know him and sell/make him (and other people) the ingredients/food he requests. It's at least easier to do that in rural Japan where these shops are plentiful and the community is more tight-knit.
Ironically, I was [prematurely] diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis a few months later when I had an ulcer in my colon. One of the things they told me to avoid was gluten (and when I learned more about gluten, it explained a lot about my digestion problems). Thankfully, when I returned to the U.S., I had a proper colonoscopy and it was determined that I just had Irritable Bowel Syndrome, NOT Ulcerative Colitis, but the gluten diet restrictions still applied.
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whiskeyii
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:31 pm
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| crosswithyou wrote: | |
I've also seen small supermarkets that carry halal foods, and kebab carts (run by Muslims) are halal too. If you stay at a place that offers a kitchen and you can cook for yourself then that's easiest, but otherwise it's not impossible to get around Japan with dietary restrictions. Just takes a little more work, as I said. |
Which reminds me (and I don't know if this is helpful), but I believe a Japanese company just released the first-ever Halal-certified soy sauce, if that helps anyone adhering to those restrictions.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:54 am
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Japan is like Apple: what they do, they do very well - but if ya want to go outside their script, temper those expectations.
Japan generally treats anything homogeneously too - what's good for the goose is good for the gander; things are done simply because that's how it's always been done.
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noblesse oblige
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:33 pm
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Just thought I’d mention that one of the Ghibli staffed Modest Heroes anthology films currently in theaters, is about a boy dealing with severe food allergies. So it’s obviously not a topic that’s beyond the consciousness of Japanese culture as some are trying to portray.
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NeverConvex
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 2:41 pm
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Interesting AnswerMan piece. I am not gluten-sensitive as far as I know, and certainly do not suffer from Celiac's disease, but I am fatally allergic to (ingesting) fish and shellfish. (On imbibing a small bite of fish, I go into rather enthusiastic anaphylatic shock, as I have empirically tested on exactly one exciting occasion.)
I had asked about exactly this issue on Quora a while back and gotten pretty negative feedback, e.g. that it is very hard to ensure that restaurants don't put fish flakes in food, and that restaurant staffs/chefs may be disinclined to accommodate even very severe, somewhat common allergies. That was pretty disappointing, and got me wondering how native Japanese folks with fish/shellfish allergies make out!
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