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StyleHealth  Researchers say order of introducing food to babies
plays no role in developing food allergies
FamilyMedicineAmerican Academy of PediatricsJohns Hopkins
University  When Elyse Anders had her first child five years
ago, her doctor recommended withholding seafood, peanut products
and strawberries from her infant son's diet to avoid food
allergies.  But when she had a daughter three years later, the
advice had changed — no delay was necessary.  As it turned out,
her first child has no food allergies, and her second child is
allergic to dairy, eggs and penicillin.  Does that mean the new
advice was wrong? Experts say no. "There is no evidence that the
introduction of any sequence of foods is better than any other,"
said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, neonatologist and chair of the
American Academy of Pediatrics' committee on nutrition.  Today,
experts say that parents hoping to prevent food allergies should
pay attention only to the age when babies star