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Published January 14, 2013

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Eating junk food three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in kids, a study has revealed.

Scientists fear the high saturated fat levels lower childrens immune systems.

A research project involving more than 50 countries found that teenagers who ate food such as burgers three times a week or more were 39 percent more likely to get severe asthma. Younger kids were 27 percent more at risk.

Both were also more prone to the eye condition rhinoconjunctivitis. However, three weekly portions of fruit and vegetables cut the risk by 14 percent in the younger group and 11 percent among the teens.

Researchers from New Zealands Auckland University looked at the diets of 181,000 children aged 6 to 7 and 319,000 aged 13 to 14.

The study also asked if they had allergy symptoms. The study authors said their results do not prove cause and effect.

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The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) study used written questionnaires completed by 319,196 13- and 14-year-olds from 51 countries and by the parents of 181,631 6- and 7-year-olds in 31 countries. They were asked if they had symptoms of the three conditions and about their weekly diet including the types of foods they ate over the last year, and how often.

We found clear associations between certain foods and severe asthma, hay fever (or allergic rhinoconjunctivitis) and eczema in the largest study of allergies in children (aged 6-7 years) and adolescents (13-14 years) to date, said study author Hywel Williams of the Centre for Evidence Based Dermatology, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK. According to Williams, the associations between allergic diseases and fast food were only really convincing for severe disease.

Researchers saw a protective effect against severe asthma for those who ate fruit at least three times a week. Those consuming fast food three or more times a week had about a 30% increased risk of severe asthma, hay fever and eczema, a chronic skin condition that causes scaly, itchy rashes. The results were consistent in both age groups. Affluence and gender did not change or affect the outcome.

The cautionary notes are that this study showed an association, which does not always mean that the link between food and allergies is causal, Williams said. It could be due to other factors linked to behavior that we have not measured, or it could be due to biases that occur in studies that measure disease and ask about previous food intake.

Study authors say if further research shows that consuming a lot of fast food actually does cause these types of allergies, it could have major public health implications because of the rise in fast food consumption globally.

Its not at all surprising to me that a disease as complex as asthma would be directly affected by diet. Weve known for a while that diet can affect immune system function with certain foods being pro or anti-inflammatory, says Dr. Stephen Teach, who is the chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Childrens National Medical Center in Washington and was not involved in the research.

Given that asthmas inherently an inflammatory disease, with swelling and inflammation of the small to medium-size airways of the lung, it is not at all surprising that diet should affect those processes in some way.

Teach said its important to note that these are associations only. In other words, it would be wrong to assume from the results of this study that fast foods directly cause allergic disease. It is possible that some unmeasured effect of socioeconomic status or environment which correlates with fast foods may in fact be responsible.

Either way, Williams said, there is a take-home message for parents. He says you dont have to stop eating fast food entires, but to eat a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruit and maybe less fast food one or two times per week rather than three or more if your child has allergies.

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Asthma, eczema, hay fever may be linked to fast food

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The finding came from new international research and was published in the journal Thorax.

Similarly, a previous study demonstrated that the benefits of breastfeeding in preventing asthma are cancelled out by eating fast food once or twice a week.

The results of the new study motivated the investigators to believe that a fast food diet may be playing a part in the increase in these conditions. If a causal relationship is found, it could have major importance to public health, considering how popular these fast food places are.

Over 319,000 thirteen to fourteen year olds from 51 countries and over 181,000 six to seven year olds from 31 countries were involved in the study. All of the subjects were enrolled in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), the largest of its kind involving over 100 countries and almost 2 million kids.

The teenagers and the parents of the kids were asked questions regarding symptoms of asthma (wheeze), eczema, rhinoconjunctivitis (runny or blocked nose along with itchy, watery eyes), and their diet on a weekly basis.

The severity of the symptoms that occurred over the past year were assessed through the questions, including how frequent they were and whether or not they interfered with daily routines or sleep patterns.

Regular fast food consumption raises the risk of asthma and eczema in children

They were also asked about their consumption of particular foods that were already associated with protective or damaging influences on health, including:

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Fast Food Linked To Asthma And Eczema In Kids

Kids who eat lots of fast food may risk more than obesity. A new study finds that children and teens who eat fast food at least three times per week are more likely to face serious symptoms for common health woes such as asthma, eczema and hay fever, compared to their healthy-eating classmates.

For the study, researchers looked at data on more than 181,000 children between the ages of 6 and 7 from 31 countries, along with 319,000 children between 13 and 14 years of age collected from 51 countries. They were all enrolled in a study that tracked asthma and allergies in children.

Their parents were surveyed on whether kids had symptoms of asthma, like wheezing, or the runny/stuffy nose and watery eyes associated with allergic hay fever, also known as rhinoconjunctivitis. The researchers also wanted to know if kids had symptoms of the chronic skin disorder eczema, which may cause redness, swelling dry skin all over the body, blisters and crusting.

Eczema is due to "hypersensitivity" reactions similar to an allergy in the skin, according to the National Institutes of Health, and people with the condition often also have asthma or seasonal allergies.

Parents were asked about symptom severity, and were also quizzed on their children's eating habits.

The researchers found fast food was the only type of food to show associations with these chronic medical conditions across both the child and adolescent age groups. Specifically, teens who consumed three or more weekly servings were 39 percent more likely to have severe asthma, while the young children who had those eating habits faced a 27 percent increased risk for severe asthma and severe eczema and allergies.

The study was observational in its comparison of kids' eating habits, which the researchers say does not prove cause and effect. Lead researcher Dr. Hywel Williams from the University of Nottingham in the U.K. told HealthDay that the findings don't necessarily mean that eating less fast food will reduce severity of these conditions.

The study was published online Jan. 14 in Thorax, a respiratory medicine journal published by BMJ.

If the association is confirmed to be causal, "then the findings have major public health significance owing to the rising consumption of fast foods globally," lead researchers Williams and Dr. Innes Asher, from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said in a journal press release.

Researchers did find a tried-and-true eating habit curbed risk: eating fruit. They found consuming three portions of fruit per week was linked to a 14 percent reduction in symptom severity for children and an 11 percent reduction for the teens.

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Fast food frequency linked to asthma, eczema severity in children, teens

Teenagers and young children who eat fast food could be increasing their risk of developing asthma, eczema and hay fever, according to a study published Monday in the British Medical Journal's respiratory journal Thorax.

The International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) study used written questionnaires completed by 319,196 13- and 14-year-olds from 51 countries and by the parents of 181,631 6- and 7-year-olds in 31 countries. They were asked if they had symptoms of the three conditions and about their weekly diet - including the types of foods they ate over the last year, and how often.

"We found clear associations between certain foods and severe asthma, hay fever (or allergic rhinoconjunctivitis) and eczema in the largest study of allergies in children (aged 6-7 years) and adolescents (13-14 years) to date," said study author Hywel Williams of the Centre for Evidence Based Dermatology, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK. According to Williams, the associations between allergic diseases and fast food were "only really convincing for severe disease."

Researchers saw a protective effect against severe asthma for those who ate fruit at least three times a week. Those consuming fast food three or more times a week had about a 30% increased risk of severe asthma, hay fever and eczema, a chronic skin condition that causes scaly, itchy rashes. The results were consistent in both age groups. Affluence and gender did not change or affect the outcome.

"The cautionary notes are that this study showed an association, which does not always mean that the link between food and allergies is causal," Williams said. "It could be due to other factors linked to behavior that we have not measured, or it could be due to biases that occur in studies that measure disease and ask about previous food intake."

Study authors say if further research shows that consuming a lot of fast food actually does cause these types of allergies, it could have major public health implications because of the rise in fast food consumption globally.

"It's not at all surprising to me that a disease as complex as asthma would be directly affected by diet. We've known for a while that diet can affect immune system function with certain foods being pro or anti-inflammatory," says Dr. Stephen Teach, who is the chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at Children's National Medical Center in Washington and was not involved in the research.

"Given that asthma's inherently an inflammatory disease, with swelling and inflammation of the small to medium-size airways of the lung, it is not at all surprising that diet should affect those processes in some way."

Teach said it's important to note that these are associations only. "In other words, it would be wrong to assume from the results of this study that fast foods directly cause allergic disease. It is possible that some unmeasured effect of socioeconomic status or environment which correlates with fast foods may in fact be responsible."

Either way, Williams said, there is a take-home message for parents. He says you don't have to stop eating fast food entires, " but to eat a balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruit and maybe less fast food - one or two times per week rather than three or more - if your child has allergies."

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