Burger Eating Too Many Asthma Risk

PARIS - Burger was delicious, especially with a solid content of different toppings and sauce is thick. However, it should not be too often. In addition to risk of clogged arteries, a study to prove, burgers can increase the risk of asthma and shortness of breath, especially in children.

Conversely, in the same study led Gabriele Nagel from Ulm University in Germany, the Mediterranean diet - which is laden fruit, vegetables, and fish - although fatty foods, can help avoid asthma-related breathing problems. Research results published in the British Medical Journal.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children. The disease is often triggered by dust and allergies. Symptoms include heavy breathing and it usually sounds, chest pain, and respiratory tract to contract. Around the world, this disease affects about 300 million people and killed about 250 thousand per year, according to World Health Organization (WHO). For reasons that are still poorly understood, asthma has increased over the last 25 years, particularly in rich countries.

To assess the extent to which diet can be a factor for asthma, researchers led by Gabriele Nagel at Ulm University in Germany studied the health data at 50. thousand children aged eight to 12 years, collected between 1995 and 2005 from 20 rich and poor countries around the world. Parents are asked to describe what their children eat, and whether they had ever diagnosed asthma or severe shortness of breath.

Nearly 30 thousand of the children tested to see whether food and beverages have opportunities to develop allergies in the body. Diet did not appear to increase the sensitivity to common allergens, but it was correlated with the prevalence of asthma and wheezing.

And, this is it, boy-child who ate three or more hamburgers a week along with soft drinks to face a higher risk significantly. However, Nagel said, cannot call a burger as the sole and direct cause of the disease, due to lifestyle factors also contribute to its development. "This would explain why the burgers in poor countries not associated with the same level of risk," he said.

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