habibi
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i guess i'm just not certain why there's such a worry here. peanuts are good for you, high in protein, folate, ect....they're a good food...and a good kind of fat. a perfectly wonderful thing to crave. i guess i wouldn't worry about it...it's not as if you're suffering from pica {Pica is an appetite for non-nutritive substances (e.g., coal, soil, chalk, paper etc.)} as long as it's something fairly nutritious to eat, i'd go for it...in moderation of course. every month my PMS craving is cake. i haaaaaave to have cake!! so, i buy one of those little 'cake for 2' things and dig in...but while i'm eating, i'm not doing anything else, i'm fully submersing myself in that cake...enjoying every bite...paying attention. this makes it sooo much more satisfying. plus, when you eat slow, you realize you're full much sooner than if you're stuffing yourself, so that cake for two lasts me more like 4 servings, instead of 2. and by the time it's gone, i'm sick of cake..................until next month! *btw..peanuts while pregnant have really NOT been conclusively shown to cause allergies in children. the biggest problem comes when there's a family predisposition to allergies, especially to peanuts, in which case the child is probably already much more likely to have an allergy and exposure in the womb only hastens the identification of said allergy. there's much more of a problem with eating peanuts while breast feeding, where there's a greater amount of exposure to the baby. but, all in all....people are born with a predisposition to allergies, exposure just brings them out, it doesn't really "cause" them. certain people are born with an immune system that is more likely to have a reaction to something...peanuts, pollen, chemicals..what ever it is...and exposure to that chemical may never trigger an allergy, or it may trigger it from birth...genetics is the ultimate cause of the allergy, exposure is just the trigger..sometimes there's a bullet in the chamber right away...sometimes you get a few rounds of roulette first...it all depends. {This was all ironically enough a very recent discussion we had in my midwifery certification classes, so it was fresh to mind}
< Message edited by habibi -- 6/30/2007 4:04:01 PM >
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