Organic Dairy Reduces Eczema and Wheezing in Babies

Posted on January 2nd, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A Dutch study published in the British Journal of Nutrition has shown that where pregnant women consumed organic dairy products instead of the non-organic version there was significant reduction in the occurrence of eczema (36%) and of wheezing (11%) [...]

 

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Tags: cheese, Dairy, Eczema, koala, Milk, organic, wheezing
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Children Often Don’t Outgrow Dairy Allergies

Posted on December 24th, 2007

The previous belief that children usually outgrow dairy allergies by the age of three has been disproved by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Apparently only 19% of children outgrew this allergy by the age of 4 and 21% (over one fifth) of children still had not outgrown it by the age of 16. Those [...]

 

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Tags: Allergies, Allergy, Cow, Dairy, Intolerance, Lactose, Milk
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