Glutard = a person who avoids gluten because they believe it is the key to their health, without any evidence to support that belief. There are those who would argue that Naturopathic doctors go around creating glutards. There is a lot to know about food sensitivities and gluten specifically, which I will not address here. Suffice it to say that some people do not need to avoid gluten but instead they focus on it with a neurotic intensity that earns them this label. Many people are crazy around the subject of food. This word has entered my vocabulary thanks to Laura Sol, welder and metal fabricator.
We used to live in a world where people got sick from exposure to feces and lives were saved with antibiotics. Now we live in a world where people are dying from antibiotics and their lives are being saved by feces. --a colleague
A 2006 study that tested people with suspected skin allergies found that 9 percent of those tested were allergic to formaldehyde, but not all of those people will necessarily have a bad reaction to various compounds that release formaldehyde, said Dr. Peter Schalock, an assistant professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School who runs a skin allergy patch testing clinic.
I felt some loneliness the first week I was here. But now, no. I have enough acquaintances to not feel lonely. The landlady, Marie, speaks English and her bf is American. And her niece, Emma, also…
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