On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 15:48:02 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701
wrote:
>On Oct 26, 2024 at 6:18:27 AM PDT, "shawn"
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:55:42 -0700, The Horny Goat
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:32:50 -0700, anim8rfsk
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They were killing people back then, long before Jimmy Carter double down on
>>>> them to lie in his own pockets regardless of how many lives it cost.
>>>>
>>> I don't know - I remember several kids telling me at the door on
>>> Halloween "please I can't have anything with _____" and almost always
>>> I was able to come up with an alternative - going back to the days
>>> when my own kids were small (they're now in their mid-30s)
>>>
>>> As long as the kids were polite (and I don't recall any that weren't)
>>> it was a non-issue.
>>
>> I can't recall that being an issue back when I was growing up. I can
>> even remember that we had a regular treat at the school lunches of
>> rice krispies peanut butter treats. Plus being in South Georgia at the
>> time peanuts were all around us with many farmers having at least a
>> small acreage used for growing peanuts. Also there was a processing
>> plants that would take in the peanuts for drying (and corn in season)
>> that was on the way to school. Not a good place for anyone allergic to
>> peanuts to live.
>
>There was a big NY Times article a few weeks back that detailed how the
>explosion in peanut allergies in America is essentially a creation of the
>American medical community.
>
>If you look at other countries, they don't have anywhere near the number of
>kids with peanut allergies as we do here in the U.S., and we didn't have them
>ourselves until the era of helicopter parenting arrived, when doctors, in
>order to placate paranoid parents-- mostly mothers-- started telling them to
>keep peanuts away from their kids doing their early years just in case they
>were allergic.
>
>Well, it turns out that those early years are when your immune system is
>developing and by being deprived of peanut exposure at that time of your life,
>your system never learns to fight against it, and a deadly allergic reaction
>occurs in later years.
Hmm, I had wondered why there seemed to be so many more cases of
allergies now than when I was younger. I though maybe it was just a
case of it being more easily reported now, but your idea seems more
reasonable. Seems that if your kid was allergic you would want to know
that.
So maybe you don't just jam a spoonful of peanut butter down their
throat at home but when you take your baby to the doctor it seems
reasonable to give them a small taste of PB. After all if there is
going to be a negative reaction isn't a doctor's office the better
place to have that reaction?
>Israel, it turns out, has almost no peanut allergies among its population.
>It's statistically zero. Why? Because there's an Israeli food that's
>traditionally given to babies, a cousin to peanut butter, but more liquidy,
>and exposure to peanuts in that form at such an early age virtually eliminates
>peanut allergies in the population.
>
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