Reply #147: There may have been people who were born with a sensitivity to

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nuts or other allergens, but perhaps they died too young to procreate and pass it on,....or their death was attributed to some other reason..

The NOTORIETY given to serious food allergies is a modern phenomenon, but the allergies probably existed before..just in smaller numbers or the deaths from them, gone unnoticed.

One thing I firmly believe in though, is the "too clean" theory.. Modern cleaning materials are CHEMICAL-LADEN time-bombs for many people.. Perhaps some/most peopl can shrug their effects off, or "store" them until later when a tipping point is reached, but for some people, I'm sure those chemicals can be deadly..

No one in our family was seriously allergic (husband's hay-fever, we don't count)and my house is definitely NOT "laboratory-clean".. My kids were always allowed to "be dirty"..play in the mud, sleep with pets, be around people with colds etc....and they were rarely sick or allergic..

(except for our youngest's bee-sting/wasp allergy)

To the contrary, friends of mine whose kids were always sick and were allergic to everything, lived in "super clean" environs..

We are so overloaded by chemical assaults every day and everywhere, who knows why exactly this is happening.. People can file lawsuits until the end of time, and there will probably never be any definitive "proof" of what ONE thing caused "it"..