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Atlanta, GA | Posted: February 23, 2015
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Allergy risks can be lowered with proper dishwashing.
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Stamps placeholder imageThe New York Times (2/23, O’Connor) “Well” blog reports that a study published in the journal Pediatrics “suggests that parents who wash their dishes by hand, rather than in a dishwashing machine, may unwittingly lower the likelihood that their children will develop allergies.” In the study, which included some 1,000 Swedish youngsters and parents, researchers “found that children raised in households where dishes were always washed by hand had half the rate of allergies.” In addition, investigators “discovered that this relationship was amplified if the children also ate fermented foods or if the families bought food directly from local farms.”
