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Are microbes causing your milk allergy?

  • Written by Cathryn Nagler, Bunning Food Allergy Professor, University of Chicago
Millions of Americans suffer from food allergies.Albina Glisic/Shutterstock.com

In the past 30 years, food allergieshave become increasingly common in the United States. Changes to human genetics can’t explain the sudden rise. That is because it takes many generations for changes to spread that widely within a population. Perhaps the...

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