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Ticks, red meat, alcohol

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Forgoing alcohol and red meat

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James Freitas
Oct 01, 2022
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Lone star tick, photo via Wikimedia Commons

There are two things I arguably shouldn’t do, which I no longer do for medical reasons.

I do not eat red meat because a tick bite made me allergic. Of all that I can not eat, I miss lamb the most. I expected to miss tenderloin or prime rib more, but it’s lamb. Lamb shanks, gyros, shawarma, you name it.

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