The reason I asked was to determine whether the consensus here was that peanut allergies were BS; or the press coverage was the BS. I guess the importance might be that some people may wrongly discount the seriousness of peanut allergy over the mishandling of the Canadian report.
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If you listen to the CBC you know that there are about equally as many variables re: the immune system as there are with "The Authorities" vis-a-vis the Canadian Press.
Having certain autoimmune afflictions myself, the etiology of which many researchers have ventured correlations for (strep throat, etc.), I have observed examples of some environmental effects on allergies among friends, to which there can be no possible argument against causation by a synthetic environmental toxin. Anybody that would doubt the existence of a particular allergy because they are cynical over issues of environmentsal influence better not acquire one, or they may not carry an epi-pen out of stubbornness or fashion (as many teens do).
When I was in college I was hired by a Sculpture professor to do all of his resin-casting for him due to his allergy to resins. He had worked for years with plastic resins until one day he broke out in all the symptoms of a full-blown allergy. From that point on he could not even enter any area where resins were being used. It is not a stretch to think that many other synthetic substances will continue to grow in effects to immune systems. It's not like believing in the boogey-man.
One day I was in the checkout line at a local home-improvement store when I began sneezing, eyes watering, and smelling a chemical odor from all these plastic Halloween trinkets that surrounded the checkout area. When I mentioned it to the girl at the register she said lately she would come to work feeling fine, then after awhile would get headachy and distressed for the rest of the day. It hadn't occured to her it might be because she was standing among all this plastic until I mentioned it. Whether or not that can be clbuttified as "having an allergy" is questionable, but the reaction is what counts to the bearer of a Genghis Khan-like immune system.
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The complexity of environmental toxins in general can support doubts about whether the rise in peanut allergies can truly be ascribed to the peanuts but, for the non-scientifically invested, it's the effects that are most important, not the cause. I often wonder what effects that professor has today (30 years later) when he goes into a home improvement store, and if it could ever advance to a point where exposure while shopping could become life-threatening for him.
Thre was some very recent research demonstrating that subjects who ate peanuts, brushed and rinsed teeth, still had peanuts residue in the saliva up to at least an hour. The warning still stands about the kissing.
It's easy in flippant chatter to diffuse serious points to where they matter less in the minds of observers, who may give credence to what is irreverent fun to their own detriment. That is why I asked. Enjoy your peanuts, your flippant chatter, your irreverent fun, and your shopping for plastics; but go easy on that filthy, disgusting kissing
Life is for learning.
Lefty.
