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© Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Peanuts for babies? Studies back allergy-preventing strategy
By LINDSEY TANNER CHICAGO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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RonriiUrufu
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Being unable to digest milk I was fed off my parents' dinner table from my first weeks as an infant. Never developed any food allergies and I'm very glad about that. Milk is still somewhat risky, cheese and yoghurt are not.
But if food allergies continue to flourish, in a couple of years anyone armed with a handful of peanuts might be able to rob a bank...
coskuri
As soon as I could grab some (6 month old ?) I was eating peanuts : the nut, the skin, including the shell... Anyway, when I was born, peanut oil was the main cooking fat, so all babies had some when they started eating. Peanut allergy was unheard of but maybe some kids dropped dead due to it and we didn't know the reason. I don't really believe that. I don't think people's habits caused the boom of allergies. They should investigate more the changes of quality of the peanuts produced in certain countries. It seems in the US, they switched to higher yeld cultivars (GMO ? ) and allergies soared a few years later.
Same for me. I refused milk and mashed veggies, so my grandma would mince any food I pointed at and I ate that (bacon, etc). People didn't worry much as long as babies were gaining weight.
Precisely, the reason why wise parents don't let kids under 7 have nuts is they risk suffocation if they swallow without chewing. They'd have to make nut butter or nut milk for the babies.