But I have to feel like there could be ulterior motives here. Isn't that a great way to keep your practice busy, encourage patients to read about things that could be wrong with them? What's next, the special waiting room copy of hypochondriacs illustrated?
Also, you'll notice that gluten is now such a big deal, it's become a verb. At least This magazine is talking about people with actual allergies, rather than those who are just jumping on the bandwagon. I read through the article, and they kept talking about people getting glutened, without explanation, as though it were a widely understood word. Apparently it means “to be served food containing gluten, in spite of your best efforts to avoid it.”
I also learned a couple more things:
- Fewer people in the US have allergies than Canada: 2.5 million Canadians to 15 million Americans. The magazine claimed that was about the same proportion of the population, in which case they might want to look up the respective populations. It’s about 7% of Canadians and 4.7% of Americans.
- Children who grow up on farms have long been known to have fewer allergies than their urban counterparts. And new research shows that this is particularly true for dairy farms. Kids growing up on dairy farms have one-tenth the chances of developing allergies as kids in other rural areas. So if you want your child to avoid allergies, by a cow.
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