A global study of over 400,000 children has found a 39% increased risk of severe asthma when 3 or more servings of fast food are consumed each week. In contrast, 3 or more servings of fresh fruit each week provided some protection against asthma. Similar findings for junk food consumption and the risk for eczema and rhinoconjunctivitis were also demonstrated by the research.
“Our results suggest that fast food consumption may be contributing to the increasing prevalence of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in adolescents and children,” the researchers, Innes Asher of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and Hywel Williams of the Centre for Evidence Based Dermatology at Britain’s University of Nottingham, wrote. If cause and effect are proved, they said, “then the findings have major public health significance owing to the rising consumption of fast foods globally.”
It appears that the American invention of fast food is significantly undermining world-wide health.


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