In January 1900, the Appalachian National Park Association submitted a Memorial to Congress and, on May 25, 1900, a bill passed authorizing funds to investigate the possibility of a national park. The printed Memorial enumerated the reasons to establish a national park in the southeastern U.S. Formed in 1899, the Association was a multi-state effort with representatives from six southern states. Although the organization had major successes early on, their efforts met with resistance and the organization disbanded in 1905.
In: Roberts , G , Grimshaw , K , Beyer , K K , Boyle , R , Lack , G , Austin , M , Garcia-Larsen , V , Grabenhenrich , L , Halken , S , Keil , T , Bernhard Madsen , C , Regent , L , Schnadt , S , Szajewska , H , van Ree , R & Mills , E N C 2019 , ' Can dietary strategies in early life prevent childhood food allergy? A report from two iFAAM workshops ' , Clinical and Experimental Allergy , vol. 49 , no. 12 , pp. 1567-1577 . https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.13515
Food allergy affects a small but significant number of children and adults. Food allergy is responsible for considerable morbidity and is the commonest cause of anaphylaxis in children. One of the aims of the European Union funded "Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Risk Management" (iFAAM) project was to improve our understanding of the best way to prevent the development of food allergy. Groups within the project worked on integrating the current prevention evidence base as well as generating new data to move our understanding forward. This paper from the iFAAM project is a unique addition to the literature on this topic as it not only outlines the recently published randomised controlled trials (as have previous reviews) but it also summarises two iFAAM-associated project workshops. These workshops focused on how we may be able to use dietary strategies in early life to prevent the development of food allergy and summarises the range of opinions amongst experts in this controversial area.
