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Fri 20 Jul, 2012 05:46 pm
Quote:n a study based on 62,000 Danish mothers, the children of those who ate peanuts and tree nuts while pregnant were less likely to develop asthma or allergies than the kids whose mothers shunned nuts.
The results support the recent withdrawal of recommendations that pregnant women should avoid nuts because they might raise a child's risk for allergies to the nuts themselves and for other hypersensitivities like asthma, according to the U.S. and Danish researchers.
"There's some mixed data out there and this current study is showing that maybe there might be a benefit to your child in having less asthma later on if you continue to just eat the way you're still eating and not avoid (nuts)," said Dr. Todd Mahr, a pediatric allergist at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, who was not involved in the study.
In 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics rescinded its recommendation that women should avoid eating peanuts while pregnant to prevent a possible food allergy, and the UK's health agency did the same in 2010.
There is little research implicating even peanuts, specifically, eaten by a pregnant mother and her child's risk for peanut allergy - much less a wider range of sensitivities. Yet the fear continues to lead many expectant mothers to steer clear of nuts.
http://news.yahoo.com/moms-nut-consumption-tied-less-allergy-kids-210145556.html
Another study shows that there is zero risk of moderate drinking of alcohol while pregnant as well.
Moral of the story here: stop living in fear of what you put in your stomach, eat and drink what you like in moderation just as our grandmothers and great grandmothers always said we should.
I never listen to them - all they do is conduct studies that refute previous studies. Do what your body wants. If you crave a chocolate bar, eat it. If you crave a salad, eat it.
@Mame,
Mame wrote:
I never listen to them - all they do is conduct studies that refute previous studies. Do what your body wants. If you crave a chocolate bar, eat it. If you crave a salad, eat it.
trust your body to tell you what it needs....this I heard someplace long long ago before the idiocy took hold.
@hawkeye10,
sounds like somebody needs a cheeseburger
If your body "craves" a healthy, balanced diet, free from chemical additives and with not too much fat, is that OK too?
I 'm busy ignoring them, Hawkeye.
Its ez, with enuf practice.
David