If we closed our eyes for a year when it comes to kids, we'd probably eradicate food allergies.
Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
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#352The annoying thing is When one of the parents is very allergic to peanuts, so you have to give it to the child elsewhere, and no friends or relatives want that responsibility. You get very little support from elsewhere. (My wife is allergic to sesame. We have tried to get people to have hummus parties with our children but to this day they have not eaten any sesame as far as we are aware.)
Genuinely curious, not trying to criticize, am parent of littles myself. You mentioned your wife is allergic but you're not, and talked about the difficulty you've had finding friends/family to expose them to it. I don't see mention of you being the one to expose them to it in a setting a safe distance away from your wife, and I guess I'm just curious! Hummus as a snack when you're at a park, or something? Like I sai…
Admittedly this may be a smaller problem with the children, but our rule when it comes to myself is that I also avoid sesame unless I'm not going to see my wife for a day or two. Our concern is that some of it would stick to teeth despite careful brushing, and then get transferred by intimacy. (She is extremely allergic.)
And truth is our children and myself have not been away from my wife for more than a few hours at a time since they were born!
Again, maybe this rule is not as important with the children who are not as vigorous kissers, but especially during the latest healthcare overloads we have been extra careful with avoidance. And as another commenter pointed out, the children don't understand that they are eating stuff that kills mom, so they may be unreliable in other ways.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
>palm oil is less than ideal Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?
Palm oil generates an incredible amount of pollution in Internet comment sections whenever it is mentioned, because people don't realize that it's simply the most productive oil per unit acre by far. If not for Indonesian rainforest palm oil you'd need to cut down 2-3x as much Brazilian rainforest for soybeans or Phillippine rainforest for coconuts to meet the same demand. 71% of palm oil is consumed between the Casp…
I went searching regarding your claim about how productive various types of oil are per acre.
It’s actually insane, and palm oil is at least 400% better than the next best.
Edit: coconut oil production is variable depending on where you check. It might be half as good as palm oil.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-yield-by-crop
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-plant-oil-yield-...
Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
#354Near zero peanut allergies in South East Asia because there's so much peanuts in our food. Mothers who breast-feed their babies must be passing on the resistance as well.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
This history seemed dubious, so I looked up a random 1989 allergy journal: "Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies and probably the most common cause of death by food anaphylaxis in the United States." https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allergy_Proceedings/ecU...
Just because it was the "most common" doesn't mean much. It was still more rare in the past. Food allergies in general were more rare. It also says nothing as to how much it has grown if it is still the most common, eg. maybe it was most common being 20% of total food allergies where as now maybe that number is 50%. IDK just saying on surface this isn't much of a counter-argument.
This could easily be attributed to a lack of diagnosis. Less than 70 years ago it was common for the official cause death to be “natural causes”, which was the default catch-all when the cause couldn’t be attributed to anything else. Not for lack of trying, we just didn’t have the technology and wealth of research and knowledge until fairly recently.
Go read the obituaries in the historic New York Times archives, it’s insane. Infants and children would die and best we could do was shrug it off and say “god works in mysterious ways” or some such bullshit.
Re: Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
#3563 years ago both the paediatrician and the allergologist advised me to give some peanut butter or nut spread to my child for this very reason. What’s new?
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like it's what's called Erdnussflips in Germany
Amusingly, I tried to convince my ex (Serbian) that Smoki and Erdnussflips are the same thing. I filled a Smoki bag with German (ja! brand) Erdnussflips, and she immediately noticed, though there were a few seconds of confused looks (and laughter).
Well ja! are definitely not the best Erdnussflips you can get, i would've noticed too that they don't taste that good.
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#358This is not new news, but nonetheless important to replicate and keep studying. I think the first often-cited study about this was in 2008 [1]. There are several more, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 [2]. Basically, the original study looked at Jewish kids in Israel versus the UK and saw that peanut allergies were about 10x lower in Israel, even though Jews of European background (Ashkena…
Why does it have to be a solid? I mean you can introduce very small amounts in their milk from any age, which should work the same?
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many years ago I worked at a candy company. I tell you more. MOST of "private label" stuff is actually manufactured by the same company as the "name brand", what is more companies routinely manufacture stuff for each other depending on the factory loads, e.g. our plant would manufacture Reese's despite having no relation to the brand and it's a very common practice.
I worked for a cookie company. Sometimes we would just swap the boxes for the name brand in the packaging machine while the line was running. The funny thing is, one box said it had some ingredient in it (it didn't) and the other one didn't. Also at some point one company asked the cookie company to create a recipe to imitate some other product so they could compete. Except the cookie company was the one making that…
>we would just swap the boxes for the name brand in the packaging machine while the line was running.
Any difference in consumer price of the identical product would be largely due to advertising.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
The palm oil is less than ideal but this isn't exactly health food to begin with.
If they used tasty healthy lard the product wouldn't sell very well in Israel or anywhere else in the Near East...
Similar to the palm oil, when imported, the tallow comes in on chemical tankers (whose cargo tanks' most recent cargoes were things like benzene or methanol at the cleanest).
Yum.