Are Your Food Allergies Real?

Food allergiesare serious business -- just ask 18-year-old Dane of Charlotte, North Carolina. With milk, eggs, peanuts, shellfish, chicken, potatoes, and garlic, and many other foods, on his do-not-eat list, he suffers from true, life-threatening food allergies.

But there are many allergy sufferers who practice the same devout food avoidance as Dane but don't really have to, according to a paper published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. -

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