Late morning, I started dozing off, not able to concentrate nor do anything. It took me awhile to get back to business. I drank and ate "energy" food.
This happens frequently after a wedding or any large catered event. I think that the caterers use some sort of additives, and I'm allergic to it.
About ten years ago, when I was teaching in the Jerusalem "Limudiya," an alternative school and tutoring program, I sometimes grabbed a felafel lunch at the popular "Yemenite Felafel" on Neviim Street. Inevitably, the same thing happened to me, I'd find myself dozing off mid-sentence. Not very good
Obviously, I don't eat their food any more. I never had that reaction from my neighbor Moshe Siton's felafel in the days he had a place near Machaneh Yehuda. Shalom Felafel on Betzalel Street doesn't put me to sleep either. I get hours of energy after eating there.
Am I the only one so sensitive to food additives?
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>Am I the only one so sensitive to food additives?
Hardly. It's good you are aware of your sensitivity; too many people get very sick because unaware of connection of what they eat with illness.
Shabbat Shalom!
I am exactly the same. There's a terrific kebab place near my university, and I often go back to my res. hall and have a nap after eating there. :S
good shabbos!
leora, I just wish I knew what it was. Also, we never know what we're eating, unless we cook it ourselves.
anne, that's interesting. Nice to know it's not just me.
A number of people are allergic to "monosodium glutamate" which is found in a lot of processed food.
That could be it.
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