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60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

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349 points zdw | 3 comments | 21 Oct 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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taeric ◴[21 Oct 25 22:26 UTC] No.45662518[source]▶
I'm very curious what the method they used to attribute this to the advice? I ask as I swear I saw something around that timeline talking about "trans fats" and how they were a possible culprit in a ton of nutrition related woes. Notably, in 2015 was when it was removed from the "safe" list and it was on the way out during this time.

It sucks, as I can't find whatever paper I thought I read that implicated trans fats in allergies. Searching "trans fats allergies" shows several. I'm assuming it was one of the main results.

So my question is largely, why would it be more likely that the advice is why allergies reduced? Seems if there was evidence that trans fats were leading to increased allergies, that removing them would be by far the bigger driver?

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1. adrr ◴[22 Oct 25 03:50 UTC] No.45664739[source]▶
Israel introduces peanuts early on in life and they have very low peanut allergies.

Few studies on it. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19000582/

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2. taeric ◴[22 Oct 25 13:49 UTC] No.45669126[source]▶
Right, I knew of those studies at the time. I also should add that I don't expect this has no impact on rates. My question is why I wouldn't expect the removal of trans fats to be more impactful?

It would be one thing if there was no known link between the two. But it was literally a time when people were not being paranoid when they cautioned to avoid a single ingredient on foods that you buy. They were terrible for you and there is a reason they were eradicated from all food by 2015.

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