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The problem with honey is that it can cause botulism. Infants under 1 are most susceptible.
Honey is usually sold pasteurized though so botulism wouldn't be an issue. Just don't go for the fancy natural/raw stuff.
And botulism spores are incredibly durable.
As a person from south Asia, one of my big culture shocks moving to west was the allergies. Its almost unheard of in South Asia (at least a decade ago). One another big factor is likely that the heavy daily use of fermented food in South Asia, which was almost complete ly absent (atleast in US)
Does this effectively confirm the hygiene hypothesis ? The hygiene hypothesis suggests that a newborn baby's immune system must be educated so it will function properly during infancy and the rest of life. I'm weighing the need for my (possible future) children to spend time in a 3rd world country with germs & allergens for a little bit, to avoid heavily sanitized environments throughout their early lives. That's aga…
I have a strong suspicion that not only is there allergy benefit, but also that this is why she ended up not being too picky an eater.
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you say it like it's a sort of corporate slut-shaming, but it's not. If you build a factory big enough to make 1/2 the cheese puffs in the world, there's an incentive to make it bigger and make all the cheese puffs in the world. Going from small batch bake/frying to assembly line flow is the 1st step, but once you're over that hurdle, you might as well go big, as long as you can handle the risk of being stuck with th…
I have no problem with it myself; but the companies/brands certainly do. Lots of national brands have a "this is not produced in a factory or machine that produces any store brand".
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> It's absolutely not backwards. But it is. The best population-level guidance (now) is early exposure. We told people to do the opposite. The result was a lot more kids with anaphylaxis-level allergy. (I don't know if this increased the total number of people who died. That'd be an interesting question, but given that we reversed the guidance, I assume from a public health perspective people now believe the original…
> I think you mean that it's intuitive, but I don't think it's logical, for exactly the reason that it turns out not to be a good idea. If operating with the best model you have is intuitive and not logical, then everything in science it intuitive and not logical, so we might have to redefine your use of "logical" to be more useful. Peanut exposure caused anaphylaxis in some kids. Many kids in the world are never exp…
When you're defending a position now known to be wrong, this sort of statement is more rude than it is enlightening (or convincing).
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Those are the companies that don't want to admit selling their stuff for cheaper, so they get it store-branded.
you say it like it's a sort of corporate slut-shaming, but it's not. If you build a factory big enough to make 1/2 the cheese puffs in the world, there's an incentive to make it bigger and make all the cheese puffs in the world. Going from small batch bake/frying to assembly line flow is the 1st step, but once you're over that hurdle, you might as well go big, as long as you can handle the risk of being stuck with th…
Should bulk cheese puffs be state owned?
If it does perhaps expose babies to all known human allergens in some shot or something.
I always wondered how kids end up with pollen allergies. I mean who doesn't take their kid outside in the spring? Or is the offending pollen only endemic to certan areas, so you could grow up in a normal way somewhere and still get it? I'm not strongly allergic to anything, but certain mosquitoes and also horseflies will make the bite swell up a ridiculous amount sometimes. But it never happened with the mosquitoes a…