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A father-physician tests if a little peanut a day keeps allergy away

  • Written by Edwin Kim, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Creamy and smooth peanut butter and peanuts can trigger deadly reactions in those with allergies.inewsfoto/Shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

No one I knew had food allergy, let alone peanut allergy, when I was a child. I grew up at a time when peanuts were given freely on airplanes, and there was no such thing as a peanut-free table at school. Fast...

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