New research shows that introducing a wider variety of foods in the first year of life may be the answer to curbing allergies. With school-wide peanut bans and EpiPens in every other pocket, many parents wonder why the US saw an 18% increase in allergies from 1997 to 2007. Doctors are noticing that children in cultures with fewer food limitations in infancy experience fewer allergies as children. Scientists are suggesting that part of the problem lies in their own recommendations to hold off feeding children allergen-prone foods. Turns out that expert advice may have been the opposite of good advice. Like most of us, our immune system needs testing to strengthen … read more
How medical science got it exactly wrong (The National Post – 9 April 2013)
