The Truth About Peanut Allergies

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Peanut allergies or of some of the most dangerous food allergies out there due to how commonly they are found in the food industry. For the past couple decades, peanut allergies have been on the rise in the United States, and scientists recently may have found out the reason why.

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Kirk Zamieroski

Writers:
Kirk Zamieroski & Andrew Maynard

Executive Producer:
Adam Dylewski

Scientific consultants:
Sophia Cai
Andrew Maynard, Ph.D.
Darcy Gentleman, Ph.D.

SOURCES:
On peanut allergy - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfs/2013/909140/
Peanut allergy stats - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091674910005750
More on allergy specifics - http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v05/i05/html/05health.html
Prevelance - http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-12/why-are-so-many-kids-allergic-peanuts
Symptoms - http://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-allergy/peanut-allergy
Eat Peanuts to Avoid Peanut Allergies - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850?query=featured_home&
Rise of peanut allergies - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/as-peanut-allergies-rise-trying-to-determine-a-cause/?_r=0
Feed peanuts to children - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1414850?query=featured_home&
Digesting Proteins - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2999748/

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