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Check the ingredients and keep your man healthy!

How the hell are those two related? Keep reading.

Last night, I intending on running home from work and getting an eight-mile run in. The attack of the rumbly tummy means that I only got about a mile in and sat down frustrated at the ferry terminal (at least if I was going to get frustrated, I was sitting waterside, right?) and eventually took a cab home because I was a few avenues over from the nearest subway. I got in and the cabbie asked why I didn’t keep running—“it’s good training,” he said. Oh, if looks could kill…

I texted Joel and complained to him a bit more about my stomach issues. He said if I’d cut out most of my wheat and dairy, I should feel better soon. He cautioned that I should check my soy milk to see if it contained cargeenan. I looked, and sure enough it did. What’s cargeenan? Apparently, a Vaseline-like substance that’s put in some foods to thicken them and can have a role in intestinal inflammation. Gross. If you look below in the comments, you will see that it’s also supposedly used to deice planes in the winter. DOUBLE GROSS.

I went and I bought almond milk, which is incredibly yummy, didn’t have cargeenan, and I tried in my overnight oats this morning:

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One more thing. I don’t typically talk about men’s health, because:

  • I’m not one.
  • I’m not dating one, currently. (Ahem…)
  • Most of my readers are women.

But my friend Ashley’s husband, Bo, wrote about his journey to get in shape. He went from 275 pounds just a few years ago to training for the NYC Marathon this year! For another dude transformation, you might also want to check out this guy, who’s lost 70 pounds since March.

An Ode to Cheese

I loved feta

It made things betta

Until it bothered my tum

Which made me feel bum(med)

[Uh, maybe this is why I left the editorial side and went into social media.]

So, the verdict is that I’m allergic to cheese/lactose intolerant. An allergist gave me a scratch test today, and that’s what it came back as. I’m also being tested for gluten, nuts, etc., etc. to see if there are any other allergies. I have more questions to ask of the doctor (what about yogurt? What should I do if I *am* going to have dairy? Why is the sky blue? What is the meaning of life?) But it’s good to be on the path to answers here.

So I had a nice dairy-free soba noodle salad for lunch:

Luckily this won’t affect my boozing habits; I never liked White Russians anyway.