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Want to Prevent Childhood Peanut Allergies? Then Feed Your Kids Peanut Butter, Study Says
A new study found that children who consumed peanut butter regularly before age 5 were less likely to develop the life-threatening allergy to peanuts.
This is a far cry from the 2000 recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which “suggested high-risk infants avoid peanuts” until age 3. Mislabeled food can often lead to accidental peanut ingestion — and death — as was the case for Órla Baxendale, a 25-year-old from Ohio who died after eating cookies she didn’t realize contained nuts. She added, “If widely implemented, this safe, simple strategy could prevent tens of thousands of cases of peanut allergy among the 3.6 million children born in the United States each year.”
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