What person wouldn’t want the excuse to eat a pb&j sandwhich every day?  There are kids who have been prescribed this exact therapy.  The parents of these children wrote off having any peanut products in their home due to severe allergies in their children.  Recently Duke Unversity and Arkansas Children’s Hospital have conducted small studies to find a way to desenitize children to peanuts and help their immune system to change and recognize peanuts differently.  They started with a peanut flour consisting of one-thousandth of a nut.  Gradually they increased the consumption to approximately 15 nuts a day.  Now these participants are to continue consuming some form of peanuts every day.  This is hope for the 1.8 million people who fear eating outside their home, and the 6-8% of parents with kids under four who fear snacks at playdates.  The next step will be finding what causes the allergy, creating a test, and fixing it before the allergy presents itself.  We have been advised not to feed peanut products to children under one.  Maybe during this first year we will be able to test children for a possible allergy.

We all know “the breast is best”.  Has PETA taken it a wee to far?  A Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves.  This prompted PETA to write to Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and propose they do the same.  I love Ben and Jerry’s!  If I knew I was drinking some woman’s breast milk, I think I would have to switch companies.  In a statement Ben and Jerry’s said, “We applaud PETA’s novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother’s milk is best used for her child.”  Could you imagine, much like there is the organic seal on food, you now have a ‘made with breast milk’ seal?  I’m sure for those breastfeeding it would be a great way to make some extra bucks, right?  I am all for breastfeeding, I do think for a baby it IS best.  However, an adult, hhmmm.  All this talk about ice cream makes me want some!!

Go and read the letter PETA sent to the good ol’ boys.