Islamabad, Sep 1 (Newswire): Diet and lifestyle affect everything from weight to heart disease to diabetes and increased cholesterol.
Not surprisingly, a diet heavy on fast food burgers is having an effect on our children—not just their waistlines but in an increased incidence of asthma.
While it might not be burgers, per se, that cause the asthma, the lifestyle associated with eating fast food multiple times per week is a strong possibility.
A group of researchers from Germany, Spain and Britain studied existing data on 50,000 children in twenty countries around the world, finding that nations that had diets heavy on junk food had a higher incidence of asthma in children.
Lead researcher Gabriele Nagel, of the Institute of Epidemiology at Ulm University in Germany, said, "This is a sign that the link is not strongly related to the food itself, but that burgers are a proxy for other lifestyle and environmental factors like obesity and lack of exercise."
Conversely, those children whose diet was heavy on fish, fruits and vegetables had a lower incidence of asthma. Nagel explained that diets high in fruits and vegetables "contain antioxidants and other biologically active factors which may contribute to the favorable effect."
Foods those are heavy and high in fat have a double whammy effect on asthmatics by causing inflammation of the airway and inhibiting their response to albuterol, a common asthma medication.
Australian researchers with the University of Newcastle presented evidence last month at a health conference in New Orleans that high-fat foods play a role in airway inflammation.
Asthma occurs when the lungs become inflamed and constricted. When the airway is also inflamed, there is a significant impact on already difficult breathing conditions.
Not surprisingly, a diet heavy on fast food burgers is having an effect on our children—not just their waistlines but in an increased incidence of asthma.
While it might not be burgers, per se, that cause the asthma, the lifestyle associated with eating fast food multiple times per week is a strong possibility.
A group of researchers from Germany, Spain and Britain studied existing data on 50,000 children in twenty countries around the world, finding that nations that had diets heavy on junk food had a higher incidence of asthma in children.
Lead researcher Gabriele Nagel, of the Institute of Epidemiology at Ulm University in Germany, said, "This is a sign that the link is not strongly related to the food itself, but that burgers are a proxy for other lifestyle and environmental factors like obesity and lack of exercise."
Conversely, those children whose diet was heavy on fish, fruits and vegetables had a lower incidence of asthma. Nagel explained that diets high in fruits and vegetables "contain antioxidants and other biologically active factors which may contribute to the favorable effect."
Foods those are heavy and high in fat have a double whammy effect on asthmatics by causing inflammation of the airway and inhibiting their response to albuterol, a common asthma medication.
Australian researchers with the University of Newcastle presented evidence last month at a health conference in New Orleans that high-fat foods play a role in airway inflammation.
Asthma occurs when the lungs become inflamed and constricted. When the airway is also inflamed, there is a significant impact on already difficult breathing conditions.
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