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1) The incidence of peanut allergies has been sky-rocketing.

2) If we could cure cancer with peanut flour, I'm sure we would. Unfortunately that one's a bit harder.

* In kids that don't already have the allergy. In which case early exposure may kill them.

Even kids with allergies benefit.

"—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstainers."

Hardly anyone? Already hitting 1 in 50 children in the UK.