Isaac Goldstein often suffered from skin problems, but never realised that certain foods were triggering them until he started following his wife’s vegan diet and gave up animal products.
“I soon realised when I dined out how much I was sensitive to certain foods,” says Goldstein, who discovered he is lactose intolerant. “It was enlightening.”
As a cheese lover, he found it difficult to cut dairy from his diet. But after a period of abstinence, the taste of pizza or ricotta would make him feel sick.
“The more I wasn’t eating dairy, the more powerful the adverse reaction to it,” he says.
Doing away with ice cream was tough, too, but he was living in San Francisco at the time and finding non-dairy ice cream alternatives was easy.
The problem started when he and his wife, Lacey, moved to Beijing four years ago.
