Higher asthma rates linked to fast food

[The Straight Story]

Higher asthma rates linked to fast food

Fast food could be feeding an epidemic of asthma, Canadian researchers are reporting.

The team found that while breastfed children have a lower risk of asthma — confirming what others have found — that protective effect vanishes if they eat fast food more than once or twice a week.

The finding might explain the curious, "paradoxical phenomenon of parallel increased rates of prolonged breastfeeding and asthma in children," the researchers report in a medical journal.

The study wasn't designed to answer why, but the findings are "biologically plausible", they say. Fast foods contain high levels of sodium that can increase the risk for wheezing, more "twitchy" airways and hyper-reactive lungs, says senior author Anita Kozyrskyj, research chair in the department of pediatrics at the University of Alberta's faculty of medicine and dentistry.

Fast foods are also high in fat, and low in antioxidants, which might also play a role in the development of asthma.

http://www.canada.com/health/Higher+asthma+rates+linked+fast+food/1223838/story.html

[Taverner]

1. I will bet anything its a link from the hormones/antibiotics

[Richard D]

2. and/or

excessive pro-inflammatory fats.

[Blue_Tires]

3. ttt

[gateley]

4. Dr. Nancy just had a study on that showed a Mediterranean Diet reduced

depression by 30% -- I think most of our afflictions are "food" related.

She and the guests agreed essentially that the need is to return to real, whole foods (I'm thinking like my grandparents probably ate). She also cited another study where a good diet and exercise reduced the probability of Alzheimer's SIXTY percent!

It's the food, people. It's Cargill and Monsanto!

Somebody get me a hoe.

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[Johonny]

6. well fast food consumption is linked to poverty

and poverty is linked with pollution so... IDK too many possibilities to start to imagine cause and effect on this one.

[TheKentuckian]

7. I think that asthma and a lot of immunity based problems

might correlate with not eating food produced around where we live. We have lost our connection to the land and are paying a price.

[hedgehog]

9. I can look at four generations of my family and trace various

chronic illnesses and autoimmune disorders. In general, I see a higher rate, earlier onset and more severe problems in the latest generations. I don't think any single factor can be targeted as the cause, but a multitude of factors including anything and everything from chemical exposures, radiation exposures, change in diet, stress of modern life, change in exercise patterns, etc etc.