Women who eat plenty of nuts during pregnancy might reduce their children’s chances of developing a nut allergy.
Physician A. Lindsay Frazier of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston and colleagues analyzed health data on 8,205 people born from 1990 to 1994, 140 of whom developed a nut allergy.
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