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.Fast foods are also high in fat, and low in antioxidants, which might also play a role in the development of asthma.Ben Stansall The finding might explain the curious, "paradoxical phenomenon of parallel...

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