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Every Christmas with smoking relatives. Trays of mixed nuts was also big. Don't see that much nowadays.
How much of a thing is this? I've heard about lactose intolerance, but it's just dairy products. How did it get to be such a big deal?
I think like with almost everythong else, food science understanding has grown in the past few decades. Food allergies has been more understood now than 50 years ago. I think that people suffered because doctors/nutritionist didn't have the tools to understand and diagnose food borne allergies other than the common ones (nuts/shellfish etc). I do think for example that some people believe that gluten is bad because some people suffer from it (and gluten free marketing), but I also do think there were a lot of untreated people before.
Micro plastic accumulation and other negative environmental impacts are probably contributing as well.
The "norm" for all mammals is to be lactose intolerant as adults. In humans, lactose intolerance is the norm unless there is a long history of pastoralism in the ancestral cultural groups. Most East Asians are lactose intolerant. Most Africans are as well, unless their cultures did cattle or goat herding. Indigenous people in the Americas traditionally are also lactose intolerant, although admixture with Europeans has increased tolerance in the groups (same for African Americans). Europeans are typically lactose tolerant because of ancestry from West Asian groups who were pastoralists. Speaking as someone who is celiac, gluten is evil - very, very evil. It physically destroys my intestines, causes me to violently empty out my entire digestive track about 3 hours after consuming it, while the last time I consumed it I was rendered unconscious for an undetermined length of time.