Matthew Smith on the Peanut Allergy
In the following video from the BBC, Matthew Smith, author of Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy, looks at what has become perhaps the most commonly discussed allergy: the peanut allergy.
Smith considers some of the explanations that have been offered for rise of peanut allergies. As he argues, many of these boil down to changes in modern life and perhaps peanut allergies are the price we pay for cleaner homes, fewer infections, and safer food:
