Nuts in pregnancy may decrease allergy risk in kids

Result runs counter to past studies

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.