Food allergies have become more common in our community, with up to one in ten young children now affected. Reactions can range from mild rashes to life threatening anaphylaxis and breathing difficulties. The most common food allergies are to egg, peanut, tree nuts, cow’s milk, fish, shellfish, wheat and soy. ...

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When an infant is developmentally ready, a variety of nutritious foods should be introduced including the ‘more allergenic’ foods during infancy ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Gina Nicole Trapp Wickens GT NW BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BHlthSc (Hons) ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Program Coordinator 0410 589 374 08 6319 1033 Gina.Trapp@telethonkids.org.au Nicole.Wickens@telethonkids.org.au ARC ...

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The rise in food allergy is more rapid than genetic deviation would allow and the current consensus is that environmental factors integrally linked to the... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

We sought to investigate the association between food-outlet availability near Australian secondary schools and frequency of Australian students’ discretionary food purchases. ...

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• 2021
• September 2021

Citation: Pandohee J, Khan J, Ali A, Kaur P, Kulshreshtha S, Shaikh M, Sundarrajan P, Basu R, Dasgupta S, Noor A. Influence of frying on food macromolecule constituents.  Frying Technology: Recent Development, Challenges, and Prospects: CRC Press; ...

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• 2023
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Food allergy can have significant effects on morbidity and quality of life and can be costly in terms of medical visits and treatments. ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

Treatments for food allergy are still lacking, yet progress is being made, and immunotherapy appears more effective than dietary avoidance. ...

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• 2015
• April 2015

The development of food allergy has been reported to be related with the changes in the gut microbiome, however the specific microbe associated with the pathogenesis of food allergy remains elusive. This study aimed to comprehensively characterize the gut microbiome and identify individual or group gut microbes relating to food-allergy using 16S rRNA gene sequencing with network analysis. ...

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• 2021
• February 2021

The rise in IgE-mediated food allergy in recent times is the likely result of gene-environment interactions mediated via epigenetic pathways. ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

Epidemiological evidence from the past decade suggests a role of vitamin D in food allergy pathogenesis ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

Gina Matt Trapp Cooper GT MC BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Manager, Biometrics 0410 589 374 08 6319 1723 Gina.Trapp@telethonkids.org.au ...

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