Asthma Treatments Online

The International Study on Allergies and Asthma in Childhood has found that children who eat fast food meals three or more times a week have a higher chance of developing asthma.

It also found that a diet high in vegetables, fruit and fish (aka the Mediterranean diet) reduced the risk of developing the respiratory disease.
The study, which looked at the links between diet and asthma, was one of the biggest studies of its kind. It collected data from 50,000 children from 20 countries over a period of 10 years. Its findings were published in the British medical journal Thorax.

Study co-author Dr Gabriele Nagel, says burgers themselves may not be wholly to blame.

“We think that burger consumption might be a proxy for other unhealthy lifestyles like inactivity, physical inactivity or obesity,” Dr Nagel said.

Associate Professor Shyamali Dharmage, an epidemiologist and respiratory disease expert from Melbourne University, says the study is associative rather than causative.

“We have done some research and we have shown that childhood obesity leads to subsequent development of asthma.”