I live in Eastern Europe and not one singular person I know has allergies.
Americans seems to have a sensibility to everything, gluten, peanuts, all types of foods and substances.
Why is that?
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The US has about 7.6% of people having allergies between 0-17 years old. Though it’s slightly higher than the worldwide average, that’s not by a large amount, and it’s lower than Poland for example, which has 8.3%.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Population-based-estimates-of-current-pediatric-food-allergy-prevalence-around-the-world_fig1_339317632
In general, people think people have a lot of allergies in North America because we talk a lot about it when children are involved, but allergies aren’t actually that common. Also, they are higher mostly because we diagnostic them more. Before, people would be allergic and not know. Many allergic people have only sometime rashes, hitching or puking, and don’t go in anaphylaxis, so they can keep eating what they are allergic to without knowing about it. Education about allergies made that less common.
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