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1 in 17 Children Under 3 Have Food Allergies...
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food allergies?
Any food can cause an allergic reaction, but 90% of all food allergies are caused by one of the following: wheat, eggs, milk, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, fish and shell fish.
Industry funded organizations cite data from 2002, stating that the FDA estimates 2 percent of adults and up to 8 percent of young children suffer from food allergies.
According to this five year old data, at least 1 out of every 17 children under the age of three has a food allergy, suggesting that food allergies now affect 1 out of every 8 families.
If you walk into a preschool classroom anywhere in America, the number of students with food allergies tells a much different story, suggesting that these five year old statistics underestimate the problem and that food allergies are far more pervasive than industry-funded groups and medical advisers would have you believe.
