Dogma CAN be changed
Often when the decibels rise and the tone turns shrill it's akin to a stock market contrarian's moment of vindication. Sometimes it seems that politically-correct conventional wisdom can never be changed. But it can.
The American Academy of Pediatrics which had been advising mothers of infants with a family history of allergies to avoid cow's milk, eggs, fish, peanuts and tree nuts while breast-feeding has taken a fresh look at the science and updated its advisory conceding that there's no good evidence for avoiding certain foods during pregnancy, using soy formula or delaying introduction of solid foods beyond six months.
So, dogma can be changed. Hang in there, those of you who've joined our seemingly-lonely effort to combat the unscientific demonization of salt.
An Associated Press story quoted Dr. Scott Sicherer of Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute in New York City, one of the authors of the revised AAP policy statement:
They say, 'I shouldn't have had milk in my coffee. I've been saying, 'We don't really have evidence that it causes a problem. Don't be on a guilt trip about it.'
