Roger Cohen, NY Times - Some
years ago I was told about the experience of a London caterer who had
provided the food for a birthday party for Lord Carrington, who is now
96. The caterer asked if any of the aged crowd had special dietary
requirements. There were none among the many octogenarian and
nonagenarian guests. They were happy to eat anything.
More
recently, another friend told me of her sister’s experience with a
large house party in Scotland last summer. When the sister inquired
about any special dietary needs, many requests came in, particularly
from the younger crowd. Hardly anyone aged between 18 and 25 was up for
eating anything. One young woman wrote: “I can’t eat shellfish but I do
eat lobster.”
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Of course a group of people in their 80s and 90s had already been selected for health by surviving that long. The rest of their generational cohort has passed away, leaving only those in better health.
Young people have not had time to die from ill health, so they are a more mixed health group. It might also be worth saying that allergies have been increasing dramatically over the past couple of decades.
https://www.foodallergy.org/facts-and-stats
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