Posted on 03/23/2025 8:58:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
University of Eastern Finland findings suggest that consuming avocados during pregnancy is associated with a 43.6% lower likelihood of food allergy development in children by 12 months of age.
Maternal dietary choices during pregnancy influence offspring health, particularly in the development of allergic diseases.
Previous studies on maternal nutrition have examined the role of fruits, vegetables, and specific food categories but lacked investigations into the impact of individual foods on allergy development in children.
The team conducted a prospective cohort study to assess how avocado consumption during pregnancy relates to childhood allergy outcomes. Data were obtained from the Kuopio Birth Cohort (KuBiCo) Study, which included pregnant women giving birth at Kuopio University Hospital, Finland.
A total of 2,272 participants met the inclusion criteria for analysis. Avocado consumption was determined through an online food frequency questionnaire administered in the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Participants were categorized as avocado consumers if they reported consuming any avocado (>0 grams) in at least one trimester, and non-consumers if they reported 0 grams in both trimesters. Offspring allergic outcomes—including rhinitis, paroxysmal wheezing, eczema, and food allergy—were assessed through a 12-month follow-up questionnaire.
Logistic regression models analyzed the association between maternal avocado consumption and allergic health outcomes while adjusting for multiple covariates, including maternal age, education, BMI, delivery method, neonatal intensive care admission, breastfeeding duration, alcohol consumption, smoking status, and diet quality.
Compared to children of avocado non-consumers, children of avocado consumers exhibited a significantly lower risk of food allergy (2.4% vs. 4.2%, p = 0.030). The association remained statistically significant even in fully adjusted models. No significant associations were found between maternal avocado intake and rhinitis, eczema, or paroxysmal wheezing.
Nutrient components of avocado, such as monounsaturated fats, fiber, and antioxidants, may play a role in immune system development.
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This could also mean the mother had a healthier diet, but at least definitely went out of the way to get avocados, while living in Finland.
Here we go with another stealth food advertisement. Don’t get me wrong, I love CALIFORNIA avocados.
What is Avocado’s Number?
6.02 x 10^23 Guacamoles.
VEry cool find- wish our family had known thst a dozen or more years ago.
I find this very interesting as avocados are very high in histamines and often trigger an allergic reaction.
However, amniotic fluid is very high in diamine oxidase (DAO) which is the body’s primary way of histamine degradation. Mother’s milk is also high in DAO.
Children who have many allergies and colicky babies are often found to have low DAO.
People who eat avocados in Finland are probably doing other things differently too, not just consuming weird tropical American fruit. Any of those different things could also change the study results. Maybe avocado eaters tend to be more outdoorsy people.
Exposing kids beginning in infancy to barns where animals are kept has been found to reduce the incidence of allergies, too.
This is an absurd conclusion....Love that Grant Money!!!
Exactly. These population studies are notoriously unreliable both because of the obvious associational differences (e.g., those consuming or not consuming avocados in Finland), as well as the cherry-picking for whatever stands out in such a study by the mere chance of statistics.
People sure are pushing avocado lately. You can have mine, and the more you insist they’re magically healthy, the less I trust them or you.
No thanks. Send 'em to Finland instead.
That’s a significant number.
And I think you’re right; over all diet instead.
The immune system is complicated beyond belief and I’d find it hard to believe that ONE food could make such a difference.
And avocadoes were virtually unknown for a great deal of the population for much of human history even in days when allergies were relatively unknown.
One study I read of showed that country kids have fewer allergies than city kids, and dairy farm kids have the fewest of all. And virtually all the dairy farm kids I knew grew up drinking well water and drinking their own raw milk.
Also the youngest in a family has fewer allergies than the older kids.
Early exposure to dirt and germs to train the immune system seems to be the biggest factor. Our super cleaner, sanitize and sterilize everything life style doesn’t help the kids in the least.
Now, if they’d just figure out some way of boosting or retraining an adult’s immune system after the damage was done.
There’s a little, old book called *How to Lie with Statistics* that explains all that. It’s a short read albeit a little tedious (dry) but after reading that, you’ll NEVER believe another *study shows* again in your life.
Studies show what someone wants them to show and are often designed to fail.
Yep. Assigned reading in basic stat courses back in the day.
For me it was my meteorology class.
Did that fortify you for the climate change hoax?
Probably applies to all foods. Introducing other foods early on would also prove true.
I grew up in peanut country and no one ever died of peanut allergies. There was peanut dust everywhere during harvest time where kids all helped. School lunch trays had government pb on them every day - in a dixie cup, with an apple, from scratch pb cookies, pb and honey on the most wonderful scratch yeast rolls. There was always an excess of government pb, cheese (!) and butter which anyone could get.
No. But that was lots of years ago.
On the contrary, it’ was my study of the long range forecasts of east coast low paths that showed me how completely unreliable any forecast more than two days would generally is. Sometimes if the weather patterns are stable, you can be reasonably accurate, but like now, in the spring? It’s a crap shoot.
Most of the real life meteorologists I ever talked to did not believe any of it.
Additionally, we all know what’s involved in forecasting and what drives the weather and it isn’t 1/10 of 1% of man made carbon emissions.
Also, climatology is a somewhat different field of study from meteorology.
Classic: “Most of the real life meteorologists I ever talked to did not believe any of it.”
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