November 3, 2016
AND HALF OF THOSE ARE DUBIOUS:
Sweden's 'strange epidemic' of fake food allergies (The Local, 03 Nov 2016)
Only a quarter of young people in Sweden who believe they have a food allergy of some form are actually intolerant, a study shows.According to the children's allergy study BAMSE, which is carried out by the prestigious Swedish medical university Karolinska Institute (KI), 28 percent of the parents of 16-year-olds studied believe that their child suffers from some form of allergy.But tests proved that only seven percent of the kids are actually allergy sufferers, TV4 Nyheterna reports.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 3, 2016 7:35 PM