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Article: PEANUT ALLERGY IS NEAR EPIDEMIC.(LIVING)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2002
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Byline: Michael Woods
Americans and Chinese both eat about 8 pounds of peanuts per person each year. Peanut allergy is almost non-existent in China, but growing so fast in the United States that experts are talking about an epidemic.
Nobody knows why the most serious kind of food allergy has emerged as such a problem in the United States, England and other Western countries, and are virtually no problem in China and elsewhere.
Some food-allergy experts are even advising American moms to embrace British guidelines as a means of possibly helping protect infants and children from developing peanut allergy, which may last a lifetime. The ...