pregnancy and nuts story

[ninjapanther]

i saw this on the today show yesterday morning. they even say its too early to speculate, then why say anything? now people are going to be like "i cant eat nuts or my child will have asthma" i think its a ploy to get women to eat meat...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25687224/

frustration.:wall:

[The Lurker]

Seems a bit random


In their study, more than 4,000 pregnant women completed a dietary questionnaire that asked whether they consumed vegetables, fresh fruit, fish, eggs, milk, milk products, nuts and nut products rarely, regularly or daily.

Why didn't they ask them what kind of slippers they wore or what channel they watched most on TV?

Some scientists come up with a right load of gunk

[Abyssinian]

It's stupid, really. I don't even bother to read most of the crap that people write now a days. I have friends who have had kids and they red articles saying that they had to drink massive amounts of milk to get enough calcium. I feel bad for them though, because they don't really know who to listen to anymore...

[Fyvel]

That article is confusing. Are nuts the problem, or are peanuts the problem? Peanuts aren't nuts :rolleyes:

[rabid_child]

Here is where I like to play researcher --

What is one of the foods "allowable" by WIC?

Peanut butter.

Who are the people more likely to be on WIC?

Low income individuals.

Which demographic has the highest incidence of Asthma in the US?

Low income individuals.

WOAH! Intervening variables.

Could it be that the women who are eating more peanut butter are doing so because it is a food provided to them by the gov't?? And maybe their poor living conditions and other environmental factors attributed to the asthma development.

[raefactor]

But the study mostly dealt with well educated, upper level income moms, I thought?

[rabid_child]

But the study mostly dealt with well educated, upper level income moms, I thought?

It doesn't actually specify the population except to say that it's 4,000 moms. The part I missed was that it was a Dutch study, which makes my WIC point null, except to just illustrate what an intervening variable was.