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Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-pro
by thanosnose 8y ago
Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-exposure-to-peanuts-prevents-allergies/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-...
Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a society, why waste resources on such endeavors when we have diseases like cancer that affect millions every year?
- thomnottom 8y ago* In kids that don't already have the allergy. In which case early exposure may kill them.
- thanosnose 8y agoEven kids with allergies benefit. "—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstainers."
- ljf 8y agoHardly anyone? Already hitting 1 in 50 children in the UK.
- Mvandenbergh 8y ago1) The incidence of peanut allergies has been sky-rocketing. 2) If we could cure cancer with peanut flour, I'm sure we would. Unfortunately that one's a bit harder.