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peanuts

n. practically no money at all; chicken feed. They want me to do everything, but they only pay peanuts.
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Randomized trial of peanut consumption in infants at risk for peanut allergy.
Preventing peanut allergy
Between 2000 and 2008, doctors recommended that infants at risk of allergy avoid peanut butter.
Peanut butter & babies
Pediatric allergist Gideon Lack of King's College London and his team enrolled babies ages 4 to 11 months who were deemed at elevated risk of peanut allergy because they either had severe eczema or were allergic to eggs.
Peanut exposure prevents allergy: for many at-risk infants, early avoidance not a good strategy
Currently, the best way for those allergic to peanuts to stay safe is to avoid them, according to the NIH.
Peanut That Won't Cause Allergic Reaction?
Our results in mice suggest that dry roasted peanuts may be more likely to lead to peanut allergy than raw peanuts the dry roasting causes a chemical modification of peanut proteins that appears to activate the immune system against future exposure to peanuts," they added.
Dry roasted peanuts may trigger allergy risk
This is an exciting expansion in Golden Peanut s South African operations, said Kris Lutt, president, Golden Peanut Company.
United States : Golden Peanut Expands South African Operations with Purchase of SA Groundnut Marketing
30 ( ANI ): Scientists believe that children, suffering from peanut allergy, can be cured of the problem by giving them small daily doses of peanut protein.
New breakthrough could help cure children of peanut allergy
7 PEANUTS account for two-thirds of all snack nuts eaten in America.
7 things you should know about... Peanuts
By the end of World War I, peanuts were a valuable cash crop and peanut butter had quintupled in popularity ("with no help from Carver," Krampner notes).
Spread too thin: scholars have discovered that certain everyday food items have played pivotal roles in the history of civilization. Apparently, peanut butter is not one of them
Boiled peanuts are a snap to make with a large pot of boiling water, a couple of pounds of raw peanuts and a handful of salt.
Go nuts! Peanuts are the funky, garden-grown Southern favorite
The textural properties of peanut butter have been widely investigated by many scientists.
Control textural properties of peanut butter through roasting time, temperature
Peanuts were incrementally roasted at 362[degrees]F from zero to 77 minutes and then sampled for water- and oil-soluble antioxidant activity levels.
Roasting does more than enhance flavor in peanuts
As many as four in five children diagnosed with peanut allergy on standard tests alone may not be truly allergic to peanuts, U.
Standard tests over diagnose peanut allergy
Researchers may sometimes complain they work for peanuts, but scientists at the USA's National Peanut Research Laboratory have shown that this is not always a bad thing: they have developed new high-tech grading methods that could dramatically boost the American peanut industry.
USA: researchers help peanut farmers with X-ray technology
1) The accumulating evidence shows that peanuts can make a positive contribution to this successful weight loss pattern by helping to prevent obesity and achieving long-term weight control.
Good news for health nuts
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