Food allergy symptoms can be mild, or can be severe. They can be with you from birth or they can develop over time. They can be triggered by common allergenic foods like peanuts, or by foods that are fine for others like pineapple.

They can present themselves in typical form, or cause any type of negative reaction in your body. They can show up on food allergy tests, or they may not trigger the level of immune response measured. This can make it hard to figure out if you have any allergies.

Walking through the park this morning, Phil and I saw a seagull that had what looked like an entire bun in its beak. When we got closer, I thought it looked more like an english muffin. A few seconds later, another seagull flew overhead with an english muffin in its beak, too! Now, it was kind of a funny sight, but it got me thinking - what are these seagulls doing with english muffins??

As far as I know, seagulls haven't evolved to the capability of grinding grains, forming them into a dough and then baking them. Obviously, they're getting the english muffins from us, but why is it that they want something that they aren't naturally able to obtain? And what is the english muffin digestion doing to their future evolution?

There are people who advocate a primitive diet, and there are a few different names for it, but basically it's a diet that they figure was eaten by our very distant ancestors, back to 100,000 years ago. There are different variations, but they all center around the idea that humans back then didn't have the diseases we have today (cancer, heart disease, obesity, etc), so if we go to that diet we can eliminate those diseases.