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Article: Soy milk-peanut allergies link dispelled
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Sydney, June 19 -- Debunking the soy milk allergy myth, a Melbourne scientist has revealed that soy milk does not cause peanut allergies.
Jennifer Koplin, a PhD student at the University of Melbourne in collaboration with the Murdoch Children's Institute has found no link between soy milk and allergy.
Koplin gathered the data on 690 children, from the Melbourne Atopy Cohort Study, to see which allergies they developed, if any.
Each child was fed with either dairy milk, soy milk or a hydrolysed milk formula.
"There's a bit of a myth out there that drinking soy milk can bring on peanut allergies," The Age quoted Koplin, as ...