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Lifts - Anyone Ever Noticed

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Kaylz

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That the packaging states "Do not exceed the recommended daily dose" but doesn't state what the recommended daily dose is, I just find it very odd! lol xx
 
Never read it before you posted. Also noted it says not a substitute for a healthy diet!
 
Perhaps it’s just one of those disclaimers like the Contents May Be Hot warning on takeaway coffees? I just checked my Dextro tablets and can’t see anything similar.

P.S - when I read your title I thought you were talking about lifts as in elevators, and it took me a while to read your sentence and reset my brain :D I need more coffee!
 
Inka said:
P.S - when I read your title I thought you were talking about lifts as in elevators, and it took me a while to read your sentence and reset my brain :D I need more coffee!
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I must confess, I thought the same.

No idea why there should be a daily limit.
 
NHS recommendations are 30g max of glucose a day for adults.
These are around 3.7g each.
I would guess they are just covering themselves.
They used to be popular with caffeine tablets when we were students working the night before deadlines.
 
Because they have to assume that people are so thick they may think they can continue to exist by eating them alone and not need any other nutrients? When using as a hypo remedy, to only eat however much you need to increase your BG by the required amount (ie the recommended dose) and then stop eating them?
 
travellor said:
NHS recommendations are 30g max of glucose a day for adults.
These are around 3.7g each.
I would guess they are just covering themselves.
They used to be popular with caffeine tablets when we were students working the night before deadlines.
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Seems most logical explanation, never noticed it before so must be something new.
 
Reminds me of the period when on the 4 pint containers of semi-skimmed in Adsa there was written the helpful…

Allergy advice: Contains milk

Which I found far funnier than was strictly necessary :D
 
Bags of peanuts always have a “contains nuts” warning too...
You’d be surprised though, how often I serve up a dinner and someone says “ow that’s hot”, to which they are met with a volley of “well duh, it’s been in the oven/on the hob for an hour, what do you expect?!” From every one else at the table :D
 
Sally71 said:
Bags of peanuts always have a “contains nuts” warning too...
You’d be surprised though, how often I serve up a dinner and someone says “ow that’s hot”, to which they are met with a volley of “well duh, it’s been in the oven/on the hob for an hour, what do you expect?!” From every one else at the table :D
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Peanuts aren’t nuts, so if they contain traces of nuts or may have been cross contaminated with nuts then it’s vital they warn people with nut allergies, otherwise they might die.
 
They are called peaNUTS though, and many people are dangerously allergic to them whatever they are, so I think I’d avoid them with a barge pole anyway if I had a nut allergy, just to be safe
 
Sally71 said:
They are called peaNUTS though, and many people are dangerously allergic to them whatever they are, so I think I’d avoid them with a barge pole anyway if I had a nut allergy, just to be safe
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That makes no sense you can’t use that as logic. CocoNUTs have the word nut in too and they aren’t a nut. My sister has an airborne nut allergy, as in she goes into anaphylaxis if someone eats nuts in the same room, or if she uses a hand wash with traces of almonds in, but is fine with eating peanuts because they aren’t a nut they’re a legume.

People with an allergy to nuts will look for “may contain nuts” on the packaging. People with an allergy to peanuts will look for “may contain peanuts” on the packaging. It’s vital to understand the difference, especially if ever you’re catering for someone with an allergy!
 
Nae need for tension to be caused in what was supposed to be a LOL post now
 
Kaylz said:
Nae need for tension to be caused in what was supposed to be a LOL post now
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Anaphylaxis kills because people don’t understand allergies or take them seriously enough. Even when people do take them seriously they can kill, I’ve been there and done the CPR. So misunderstanding always need education, there’s a very good reason peanuts will state if they could contain nuts.
 
Well maybe the packaging said “contains peanuts” then! I wish I’d never started this!
FWIW I do know what anaphylaxis is, a friends of my daughter's has a dangerous nut allergy, and another lad not in her year group went out with his friends for his 15th birthday, asked staff at the restaurant what he could eat with his severe nut and seed allergy, ate their recommendation then had a reaction on the bus on the way home as it turned out the food had been fried in sesame oil. Unfortunately he didn’t have his epipen with him, and by the time the ambulance arrived it was too late there was nothing they could do.
 
And this was exactly what I didnt want, people made to feel bad about something they had said, sorry Sally that you've been left feeling this way and the thread has now gone completely off topic xx
 
In this case I’d expect you to be accurate about packaging labels regarding allergies, and to understand the difference between nut and peanut allergies!
Sally71 said:
Well maybe the packaging said “contains peanuts” then! I wish I’d never started this!
FWIW I do know what anaphylaxis is, a friends of my daughter's has a dangerous nut allergy, and another lad not in her year group went out with his friends for his 15th birthday, asked staff at the restaurant what he could eat with his severe nut and seed allergy, ate their recommendation then had a reaction on the bus on the way home as it turned out the food had been fried in sesame oil. Unfortunately he didn’t have his epipen with him, and by the time the ambulance arrived it was too late there was nothing they could do.
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Really? Is there a need to carry on? No, so just leave it, you are completely changing what this post is about, just stop there before anyone else is made to feel about 2ft tall
 
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