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Nut-Induced Asthma in Infants
Posted on July 24, 2008
A new study has found a strong link between eating nuts when pregnant and having asthmatic children. The study, out of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, tracked the diets of over 4000 pregnant mothers and found that those who ate nuts or nut products daily during pregnancy were 50 percent more likely than rare nut eaters to give birth to kids who developed asthma by age eight. Even after other dietary factors were controlled for, the one consistent factor among the asthmatic children appeared to be that their moms had consumed peanut butter every day during pregnancy. Interestingly,...
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