Junk Food Linked to Kids’ Asthma and Eczema

Hayley Dixon
Telegraph.co.uk
January 14, 2013

The high saturated fat levels in food such as burgers lower children’s immune systems, it is believed.

A research project involving more than 50 countries found that teenagers who ate junk food three times a week or more were 39 per cent more likely to get severe asthma. Younger children were 27 per cent more at risk.

Both were also more prone to the eye condition rhinoconjunctivitis, according to The Sun newspaper

But just three weekly portions of fruit and vegetables could cut that risk by 14 per cent in the younger group and 11 per cent among the teens, it is believed.

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This article was posted: Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:56 am

Tags: food, gmo, health, natural health

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