http://ginamallet.com/2010/02/22/the-endangered-hot-dog/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:14:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://ginamallet.com/2010/02/22/the-endangered-hot-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-2413 Gina Mallet Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:54:05 +0000 http://ginamallet.com/?p=1410#comment-2413 Seems the stats are unreliable but according to Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, an internal medicine doctor and professor at Harvard Medical School, writing in 2008 in in the British medical journal BMJ " This Allergies Hysteria is just Nuts" Dr. Christakis points out that about 3.3 million Americans are allergic to nuts, and even more — 6.9 million — are allergic to seafood. But of 30 million hospitalizations each year, just 2,000 are due to food allergies, and about 150 people die annually from serious allergic food reactions. That’s the same number of people killed by bee stings and lightning strikes combined.No breakout of those affected by peanuts. Seems the stats are unreliable but according to Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, an internal medicine doctor and professor at Harvard Medical School, writing in 2008 in in the British medical journal BMJ ” This Allergies Hysteria is just Nuts”
Dr. Christakis points out that about 3.3 million Americans are allergic to nuts, and even more — 6.9 million — are allergic to seafood. But of 30 million hospitalizations each year, just 2,000 are due to food allergies, and about 150 people die annually from serious allergic food reactions. That’s the same number of people killed by bee stings and lightning strikes combined.No breakout of those affected by peanuts.

]]> http://ginamallet.com/2010/02/22/the-endangered-hot-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-2408 Chris Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:17:46 +0000 http://ginamallet.com/?p=1410#comment-2408 How do those stats compare to peanut allergy deaths/hospitalizations? How do those stats compare to peanut allergy deaths/hospitalizations?

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