[Niuhuru]

Maybe it’s the vegan diets and the teens who are turning food that they go on to lose a few pounds into regular fare. They’re getting just enough, but not enough for the body to set aside to use to fight infections.

[decimon]

Hot buttered sole ping.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Who is least affected? Those who eat more fish and butter.”

Wisconsin kids are safe. Fish Fry dinner EVERY Friday for decades! :)

[rdl6989]

allergists will find allergies thta 40 years ago would have been dismissed as inconveniences

There's the culprit.

[SandWMan]

Butter is good for you? Holy crap, next thing you know, we’ll find out that sunlight is required to produce, say, vitamin D or something...

[Dianna]

Asthma and eczema used to be (may still be) associated with milk allergies.

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm very curious about the nut allergies. There are freepers with children who suffer from this, and my understanding is that the allergy can be extremely dangerous.

However, when I was a kid, any gathering of children was likely to include a peanut butter sandwich. And no one suffered. No one died. No one even talked about allergies. Then, seemingly out-of-the-blue, nut allergies became a big deal and every classroom in America now contains at least one sufferer.

What's up with that?

[goodwithagun]

My son will be one on Sunday. He has been eating salmon for four months now. Loves it! Other parents can’t believe that he eats it. I’m so sick of hearing, “All my son wants to eat is hot dogs and mac and cheese.” I don’t even keep those items in my house.
My in-laws do the spray butter thing and I can’t stand it. I call it chemical spray. That stuff has a list of ingredients that covers the entire back of the package. How can that be better for me than the miniscule amount of butter I eat?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

That reminds me....Note to self: go fishing Saturday

[browardchad]

Interesting. Our oldest son had severe food allergies as a toddler. On the advice of a very wise allergist, we followed a 14-day rotation diet, which included many different species of fish (being more diverse than animals, I guess). He ate everything from turtle meat (before it was banned) to smelts and lobster, depending on the day -- all of it prepared at home, from either fresh or frozen, with no additives other than those listed for that particular day (e.g. sauteed in corn oil, or baked with no additives, etc.).

The bottom line is that he overcame the allergies, which were severe enough in the beginning to hospitalize him for dehydration, without shots or medication, within two years.

And to this day, he loves him some fish!