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Heather has done for allergies what Jared Diamond did for broader concepts of human history in his book, Guns, Germs and Steel. Although she is not a scientist, she used her gift for synthesizing a wide range of scientific disciplines and history to arrive at a simple, coherent, integrated, and common sense hypothesis that, for the first time, convincingly explains the sudden onset of the allergy epidemic. Her theory accounts for its steep rise in America in the early 1990s, and its subsequent movement from western nations into the developing world.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. , Foreword, The Peanut Allergy Epidemic (NY, Skyhorse, 2017) |
Some experiences can change the course of your life completely. In 1995, this happened to me when my one year old child reacted violently to a taste of peanut butter.
We sought treatments that were available at the time and adopted a state of hyper vigilance. I studied nutrition and holistic health looking for ways to recover. At the same time, I scoured the medical literature. I wanted to know what had happened, how and why my child -- and by the late 1990's scores of other children -- had suddenly become atopic and anaphylactic to common foods. I published the first edition of The Peanut Allergy Epidemic in 2011. The third edition published in 2017 includes a foreword by another allergy parent, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
