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Daniel Keane

Feeding babies peanuts regularly helps prevent allergy in later life, study finds

Scientists have hailed a "remarkable" breakthrough in allergy treatment as a study revealed that feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy until the age of age five can protect against allergy into adolescence.

Researchers at King’s College London found that introducing peanuts into babies’ diets could reduce the rate of allergy by 71 per cent.

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