Reader's Digest(ion)

I heard an odd thing this morning. I was ordering a bagel w/cream cheese, when a lady I know came up next to me inquiring what I was breakfasting on. I told her, and she told me that she used to love bagels but she gave them up because she read they were hard to digest.

Now I’ve known plenty of people who’ve given up plenty of foods because they themselves have problems digesting said foods, but this is the first time I’ve heard of giving something up because she’d read it is hard to digest. She never had a physical problem from eating bagels, but she’d read about it. Am I crazy? Is there something I don’t know about digestion that I should know?

Can a food be universally hard to digest, i.e. it’s difficult for everyone even if none of us is aware that we are causing ourselves such troubles? If so, shouldn’t these foods come with warning labels that say: “Difficult to Digest (for everyone, no exceptions)”

I told her that I had never felt any discomfort from bagels so I was going to keep on ordering them. People are weird.