food allergies
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Do Food Allergies Make You Gain Weight?
Do food allergies cause weight gain? In this post, I weigh in… Continue reading
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An App to Uncover the Truth About Your Beauty Products
Discover the power of a beauty app and its ability to unveil the hidden dangers lurking in your favorite beauty products. Uncover shocking secrets about harmful ingredients and learn how to make healthier choices for your skin and overall well-being. Continue reading
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Allergies, Hormones and Miracles
It happened to me. It took about seven years of allergy shots, but for several years, from the age of fourteen until about age twenty, I was able to eat soy sauce and my favorite cuisine at that time, sesame chicken and shrimp fried rice. But there was a slight catch. Slightly different reactions that I didn’t understand,… Continue reading
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Without The Labels
I’m going to share a journal entry with all of you. An entry from April that very much relates to the topic at hand… Journal entry – 4/12/2018 The missing puzzle piece. These past two weeks brought me back to the very place I was trying to escape. I had already been there.… Continue reading
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I'm Back
If you told me I’d be back, I wouldn’t have believed you. I was done with allergies. By ‘allergies’ I mean the gamut of allergic diseases I had to live my life around. Food allergies, hay fever, eczema, contact dermatitis, oral allergy syndrome and cholinergic urticaria were words I never wanted to speak about again.… Continue reading
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The End (Rebirth)
Some of you have been reading my blog since the first year Maya’s Happy Place was born back in 2009. All of you showed me how connected we are and took away the painful isolation of feeling like a ‘girl in the bubble.’ A couple of you called me out on my sense of entitlement and lashed out in anger at me after… Continue reading
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6 Life-Changing Energy Techniques For the Immune System
Do chakras really exist? According to Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese Medicine, they do. Leave it to those smarty-pants Asians to know something we don’t. In China, energy is known as chi or qi. In Japan it is known as ki. In Hindu, it is called prana which in yoga, it is the breath or life… Continue reading
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Mondolez International Acquires Enjoy Life Foods: What Does This Mean For Those With Top 8 Allergies or Celiac Disease?
Many of you might have heard the news. An internationally publicized buyout that will hit those of us in the food allergy and Celiac communities hard and not knowing what the future has in store is hitting many of us bloggers, food allergy moms and severely sensitive ones with agita.For years, we’ve looked at Enjoy… Continue reading
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Independent Living With Roommates As An Adult With Food Allergies and Possible Celiac
Congratulations to K.B! You are my Christmas giveaway winner! Look out for an email in your inbox this week! To all who participated, thank you and all those who signed up for my mailing list are automatically entered into every holiday giveaway I do from now on!Now to the topic at hand, a recent study… Continue reading
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Traveling To Europe or Living in Europe With Food Allergies? Well You're In Luck.
I have an obsession with Paris, France. I have no idea why. I’ve never been there. However, when it came time to pick a language in middle school, I got yelled at by everyone (except for my dad) for choosing French. Of course, I had no idea why.The fact that my dad had chosen French… Continue reading