Remember when it seemed like suddenly everybody was getting a peanut allergy and you thought to yourself,

hey, when I was a kid, nobody I knew had a peanut allergy.

Why everybody now?

This is Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, there has been a landmark study that finally confirms what most of us suspected.

The reason why in our childhood we didn't know anybody who had peanut allergies, and then

all of a sudden it seemed like every kid had a peanut allergy is not really, it's not inaccurate.

In fact, by the year 2019, it was estimated that one in 18

U.S. children had a peanut allergy. One in 18. It seems that back in about 2000, health officials

published, there was a paper published that said, you should, kids that are vulnerable to allergies should avoid peanuts at least until the age of three.

Well, pediatricians and parents, Steve, got a hold of this information and said, oh, well, how do you tell whether your kid has a high risk of allergies?

It's probably just better to avoid peanuts.

So we're just not going to feed peanut butter to our kids.

And as a result, it became a more general philosophy of keeping peanuts and peanut butter away from toddlers.

Steve, in early 2000s, doctors started to realize that they had made a mistake because

there's this crazy thing about the immune system, Steve.

If you blindside it was something it's never faced before, later in life, it has a hard time

dealing with it.

Yeah.

It needs to learn.

Thus the surge in peanut allergies from 2005 to 2014, ER visits, ER, emergency room visits for peanut reactions tripled. It wasn't, it was about 2009 when federal health officials started to realize that their advice had been wrong, but it took

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