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Podcast: Eating at a Meeting
Episode: What Allergy? An Action Plan For Living with Life-Threatening Allergies
Description: Living with one or multiple life-threatening allergies is not an easy thing to do, whether it is someone you care for or yourself. You have to read labels. A lot of labels, all the time, and over and over. You have to ask a lot of questions of others about how they prepared food and what's in the food. It can be terrifying, relentless and exhausting. And, every aspect of life seems to be driven and controlled by them. Ruth Holroyd is allergic to many things — nuts, dairy, soy, wheat, latex, nickel, dust, pollen — and has been to t...