Could a peanut-heavy diet for pregnant women help keep their children from suffering dangerous nut allergies? Researchers are investigating the possibility in a new study.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, the study found that when pregnant women ate more peanuts and tree nuts they tended to have children with fewer nut allergies.
Peanut allergies in children have gone up from 0.4 percent in 1997 to 1.4 percent in 2010, according to the study.
Researchers examined more than 8,000 children and their mothers to understand how diet during pregnancy might affect allergies in children. The researchers initially questioned the mothers about their diet either when they were pregnant or shortly after in the early 1990’s. In 2009, they questioned their children to see who had developed allergies. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/peanut-heavy-diet-pregnancy-curb-nut-allergies/story?id=21314346
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