Food Allergies

by Alice C. Richer

Most people take eating for granted - but for some, eating can be downright dangerous. Thirty thousand Americans are hospitalized each year due to an allergic food reaction and peanut allergies in American children doubled from 1997 to 2002. Between two and ten percent of children are affected by food allergies worldwide and adverse food reactions increased hospital admissions by five hundred percent in the United Kingdom during the past two decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313352739
• ISBN13: 9780313352737
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"