The number of children with food allergies is skyrocketing. It’s changing the landscape of food at home, in schools, on airplanes and in restaurants. And it’s changing how we think about what we are feeding our families.
Today, 1 in 13 children has a food allergy, the number of children with the peanut allergy quadrupled between 1997 and 2010. A life-threatening food allergic reaction now sends someone to the emergency room once every three minutes in the United States.
Last week, we held an eye-opening and empowering teleclass with expert and advocate, Robyn O’Brien, about food allergies. During the class, Robyn covered topics such creating a safe home environment, protecting your children in the outside world – in preschool, on playdates, at birthday parties, tips for teaching your allergic child and their siblings how to protect themselves, latest research, and more.
In case you missed it, you can find a link to the class recording HERE.
Additionally, here are some great resources from Robyn:
- Food Allergies & Food Sensitivities: Know the Difference
- Facts About Kids and Food Allergies
- 12 Cooking Tips for Families With Food Allergies
This class was generously ponsored by
Launched on Mother’s Day 2006, Happy Family is one of the largest and fastest growing organic food brands to offer a complete line of nutritious foods for babies, toddlers, kids and their mothers. Beginning with a baby’s First 1,000 Days – from conception to year 2 – Happy Family provides an enlightened assortment of organic meals and snacks to help support a lifetime of wellness. Constantly innovating, Happy Family strives to offer families the right nutrition for every stage of development.
Robyn O’Brien has been called “Food’s Erin Brockovich” by Bloomberg and the New York Times. She is a food industry analyst, author and mother four regularly featured in the media for her analytical insight. She is the executive director of the AllergyKids Foundation whose mission is to make clean and safe food affordable to all families and founder of of Moms Voices, a campaign to protect the health of children.
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