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Peanut allergies or of some of the most dangerous food allergies out there due to how commonly they are found in the food industry. For the past couple decades, peanut allergies have been on the rise in the United States, and scientists recently may have found out the reason why.

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SOURCES:
On peanut allergy - http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijfs/...
Peanut allergy stats - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
More on allergy specifics - http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive...
Prevelance - http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article...
Symptoms - http://acaai.org/allergies/types/food...
Eat Peanuts to Avoid Peanut Allergies - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/...
Rise of peanut allergies - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02...
Feed peanuts to children - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/...
Digesting Proteins - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

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