Mom calls potluck participant at 10 PM demanding gluten-free options for her daughter, gets annoyed when they don’t have any: ‘I didn’t want to risk it’

Dietary restrictions require a lot of thinking ahead. Living with a food intolerance or caring for somebody who does can get tiring pretty quickly. For the sake of their health, they have to avoid certain things that half the time seem to pop up in the most unexpected of places. If the issue is severe, …
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New hire eats carnivore diet, faces grilling from coworkers: ‘Whatever he’s trying to do clearly isn’t working’

Work is not the place to criticize lifestyles. A simultaneous benefit and drawback of the average workplace is that it often brings together people who would not interact otherwise. While spending eight hours a day around somebody with whom you have nothing in common can be painful, it can also offer a good lesson in …
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Mom scolds 17-year-old daughter for buying ice cream with her own money when the rest of the family is on a diet: ‘They’re all overweight, I’m not.’

She shouldn’t have to stick to an overly restrictive diet just because her mother says so.   

Mom criticizes aunt for eating her birthday cake in front of her 4-year-old nephew because she doesn’t allow him to eat sweets: ‘She said I was taunting a child and disrespecting her parenting.’

She shouldn’t have to walk on eggshells because her sister has weird food hangups.  There’s a lot of debate over whether being overly restrictive with your child’s diet is worse for them than letting them eat unhealthy food with some regularity. It feels like every decade, there’s a new ingredient that’s the angel and another …
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‘[He] said he didn’t want to deal with my reaction’: Woman accuses boyfriend of being a liar after discovering he has secretly been a vegan for six months, hiding his new diet by buying his own groceries and cooking when she’s not home

Would you break up with your partner if they lied about becoming vegan? This is a question I never thought I’d have to ask…But I guess the world never fails to surprise us, especially in this day and age. Firstly, because I’m not entirely sure why one would feel the need to hide their dietary …
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Mom starts cooking nutritious meals to better her daughter’s health, but her husband and son insist they get separate meals: ‘I’m not cooking two separate meals every day’

When a mother decides to put her daughter’s health first and cook holistic meals, the men in the house throw a fit over the healthy diet. You’re probably thinking, «Why don’t they cook themselves?» Well, we’re thinking that, too. Too often, a matriarch has to bend a knee to her household because the powers that …
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14-year-old yells at his 15-year-old brother for throwing away all the food in the house that has sugar in it because he’s going on a diet: ‘I need orange juice in the morning for my iron supplements.’

He has no right to dictate what everyone else in the house eats.  If you grew up in a family where your parents were frequently going on diets, you know what it’s like to have the contents of the pantry radically change overnight, only for it to go back to normal after a few months. …
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‘No, you don’t need protein coffee’: The TikTok protein craze makes everyone, even couch potatoes, eat like body-building gym bros

It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. You’ve been craving a brownie for what seems like forever after an especially laborious workday riddled with unanswered emails and back-to-back Slack messages. To your surprise, you see a small basket full of individually wrapped snacks in your office kitchen. Your prayers have been answered; Your sweet tooth, soon …
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25+ Gluten Free Memes for Celiac Cuties

Having a dietary restriction or an allergy is neither fun nor games. It’s serious biz, and people can be weirdly annoying about it especially when it comes to having a gluten allergy. Somewhere along the line, gluten-free became shorthand for high maintenance, so people treat it with a weird amount of disdain.  But celiac disease …
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‘She’s going to end up obese’: Stepdad pressures wife to control his 5’4 150 lb 15-year-old stepdaughter’s weight, mom claims it’s unnecessary because she exercises 100 hours a week

Weight is an extremely sensitive issue with teenagers. They already have so much pressure and responsibility at such a young age, and they shouldn’t have to worry about counting calories or being the perfect weight.  The population as a whole feels very conflicted about how we should «deal with» overweight children. Sending your kid to …
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