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...children in London with that of children in Tel Aviv. The study of 10,000 Jewish children, which appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that kids in the U.K. were almost 10 times as likely to have a peanut allergy as their peers in Israel, says Lack...
...disparity? Although Lack can't draw conclusive explanations from his observational study, he suggests that one reason may have to do with early exposure. In Israel, children are typically introduced to peanuts much earlier than in Europe and North America. Lack points to a popular Israeli snack food called Bamba (like peanut-flavored Cheez Doodles), which youngsters start eating as early as infancy. That early exposure may desensitize children to peanuts, even in kids with a family history of food allergies. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...none of your coverage of the disaster in Haiti has there been any mention of the 200-strong medical and rescue team from Israel. They worked around the clock pulling people from under the debris, performing operations and even delivering babies. They were the first to arrive and were surrounded by medical teams from Russia, Colombia and the U.K. It was the same in the recent Turkish earthquake, the same Israeli team was there, and I looked in vain, in various media, for a hint of it. Yan Sever, KARMIEL, ISRAEL...
...public holiday marking the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. "The best example is the Swiss crisis. It shows there is a big gap between our way of thinking and our mentality, and the Western mentality and the way of doing business." (See TIME's exclusive interview with Gaddafi on Obama, Israel and Iran...
That is a very good question. Abbas and Fayyad plan to have all the components of a functioning Palestinian state in place in the West Bank by the summer of 2011. At that point, a different question arises - not just for Israel but for the U.S.: What obstacles are there to recognizing a legitimate state of Palestine? What excuses do we have left...