PDF The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Third Edition: What's Causing It and How to Stop It Writen By Heather Fraser

The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Third Edition: What's Causing It and How to Stop It

By : Heather Fraser

Book Synopsis :

Essential reading for every parent of a child with peanut allergies?third edition with a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Why is the peanut allergy an epidemic that only seems to be found in western cultures? More than four million people in the United States alone are affected by peanut allergies, while there are few reported cases in India, a country where peanut is the primary ingredient in many baby food products. Where did this allergy come from, and does medicine play any kind of role in the phenomenon? After her own child had an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter, historian Heather Fraser decided to discover the answers to these questions.In The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, Fraser delves into the history of this allergy, trying to understand why it largely develops in children and studying its relationship with social, medical, political, and economic factors. In an international overview of the subject, she compares the epidemic in the United States to sixteen other

Book Detail :

Author : Heather Fraser

Pages : 272 pages

Publisher : Skyhorse

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ISBN-10 : 1510726314

ISBN-13 : 9781510726314

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