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Lottie Peppers on 24 Feb 15It may sound radical, but it works: Eating peanuts slashes the chance of a peanut allergy, at least in children at high risk of developing one, a much-anticipated study finds. The results are likely to catapult a long-standing theory-that ingesting potential food allergens is a way to prevent allergies-into mainstream medicine. "This is the study," says Rebecca Gruchalla, a specialist in allergy immunology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, who wasn't involved in it. The data, she says, are "just mind-blowing."