ApocaDocs: Forty per cent of children now suffer from food allergies

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Posted Wed Apr 15 2009: from London Daily Telegraph:


	Forty per cent of children now suffer from food allergies http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1239826265 The number of children with food allergies has tripled in the past decade, with millions being diagnosed with severe immune system disorders, some of them potentially life-threatening. Researchers believe that as exotic foods become more commonplace in British households, the number of people being diagnosed with allergies is likely to rise further. Dr Jonathan North, a consultant immunologist at Birmingham Children's Hospital, said: "We used to say that 15 per cent of the population had an allergy of some sort, now the figure is nearer 40 per cent."... Other research has also found that climate change could be responsible for exacerbating the seriousness of conditions such as hay fever.

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If we could just get kids to be allergic to television...