On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 5:58:20 PM UTC+1, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:02:34 -0700 (PDT), Cherry >
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> I've never heard of Dr's telling pregnant women not to eat nuts.
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> Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them.

Pregnant are certainly told it in the UK and some other European countries,I think for the last few years:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnan...regnancy#close

Cherry