I think that peanut allergy thing is overblown and ridiculous. I know
absolutely NO one with a peanut allergy, and yet I know someone who carries an epi pen at all times because she's that allergic to onions. I even know someone who is allergic to beans, yes - beans (not the green vegetable)! If I can know even one person with a weird allergy like that and not a soul who is allergic to peanuts, it's overblown.
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>3-4% of Americans have a serious food allergy, but indications are that .6% of them are allergic to peanuts.
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> > What's odd is how that has spiked up lately.
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> > http://content.time.com/time/health/...869095,00.html
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> > Between 1997 and 2007, the number of children under 18 who suffered from food allergies jumped 17%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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> Yes and nobody really knows why for sure.

My theory is that the peanut allergy has only become common since pregnant mums we're told not to eat peanuts during pregnancy, thus depriving babies of a natural immunity.

The spike in the allergy is more prevalent in the western world. Go middle east and far east they don't tell pregnant mums to eats nuts and incidences of nut allergies are still very low.

Cherry