This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 1,329.

Don't be allergic to today's English vocabulary.

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Do you have a gluten intolerance or any other dietary complication?

Today we talk about the troubling trend of Americans developing dietary sensitivities and we show you

some key vocab that you need to navigate conversations about this topic.

Hey Jessica, how you feeling today?

I'm feeling good.

I just had a piece of fruit for breakfast.

I've recently changed my diet. I used to always have

toast and peanut butter like you with your peanut butter. I had toast with

peanut butter every single morning, but now I changed it because I found out I'm allergic to wheat.

Interesting.

So this is a fascinating topic that I feel like is kind of sweeping our country right now, and

I wonder if it's sleeping the world or if it's just our country

I kind of feel like there may be something in the way that we process foods or our farming techniques

that may be creating this allergy.

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