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NPR: Feeding Babies Foods With Peanuts Appears To Prevent Allergies

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Feeding Babies Foods With Peanuts Appears To Prevent Allergies : The Salt : NPR

Babies at high risk for becoming allergic to peanuts are much less likely to develop the allergy if they are regularly fed foods containing the legumes starting in their first year of life.

That's according to a big new study released Monday involving hundreds of British babies. The researchers found that those who consumed the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter each week, starting when they were between 4 and 11 months old, were about 80 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy by their fifth birthday.
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80% decrease seems fairly significant...




On another note, does NPR count as "Mainstream Media"?
 
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