What's behind the rise in food allergies
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The number of people with food allergies in the UK has more than doubled since 2008, with more than 5,000 people a year hospitalised in England with anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction. So what’s behind the increase and are we close to a cure?
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- Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton.
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| 0:43.1 | Macardo is the crunchy biscuit stick |
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| 0:47.3 | And makes other biscuits look so |
| 0:48.8 | Ordinary |
| 0:49.7 | Macado is deliciously Moorish |
| 0:52.3 | However you enjoy it |
| 0:53.5 | Make every day more Macardo. |
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| 1:03.3 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
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