{"id":2126,"date":"2018-10-25T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:32:48","slug":"allergies-the-scourge-of-modern-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/10\/25\/allergies-the-scourge-of-modern-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Allergies: The scourge of modern living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/oct\/20\/allergies-the-scourge-of-modern-living-hay-fever-ashtma-eczema-food-peanuts-dairy-eggs-penicillin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/10\/peanuts-1850809_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/10\/peanuts-1850809_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/files\/2018\/10\/peanuts-1850809_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0Food Standards Agency, estimates suggest that about 5-8% of children and 1-2% of adults are affected by food allergies in the UK. The recent headlines about fatal allergic reactions, such as that of two\u00a0Pret a Manger\u00a0customers, heighten the impression that food allergies are more commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>So is the impression that they are increasing correct and what is causing it? And what has gone so wrong with our bodies that we might be killed by something as seemingly harmless as a sesame seed?<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/oct\/20\/allergies-the-scourge-of-modern-living-hay-fever-ashtma-eczema-food-peanuts-dairy-eggs-penicillin\">article in the Observer last week<\/a>, The School of English&#8217;s Vybarr Cregan-Reid looks at the environmental factors that have contributed to the rise of this largely modern phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/creganreid.html\">Vybarr Cregan-Reid<\/a> is a reader in English and Environmental Humanities at the School of English<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His latest book, <em>Primate Change: How the World We Made is Remaking Us<\/em> is published by Octopus\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0Food Standards Agency, estimates suggest that about 5-8% of children and 1-2% of adults are affected by food allergies in the UK. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2018\/10\/25\/allergies-the-scourge-of-modern-living\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}