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Researchers recorded what patients ate at every meal and collected microbiome samples each day.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The first alpha-gal fatality was confirmed in 2025 after Brian Waitzel, an otherwise healthy JetBlue pilot, died four hours after he ate a hamburger at a backyard barbecue in New Jersey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
If I ate a soup I liked out in the world, I’d jot down what was in it, what the broth tasted like, sometimes sketch the bowl.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
To pay my respect, I ate not only for myself but my whole family, whose allergies and aversions led them to abstain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
He’d pretend to get mad that I ate his candy again, and I’d giggle and deny it, my tongue raw and tingly from too much sugar.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
