Overweight Kids Likely to Have Allergies
What’s the connection between obese children and allergies?
Well, the researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences or NIEHS aren’t quite sure. But having recently conducted a study on this, they are convinced that there is a connection.
During this study (now published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) they analysed data that had been collected on 4,000 children and young adults between the ages 2 to 19. In particular, they looked at all allergy and asthma related data on these children.
The result – they discovered that obese children and adolescents appeared to be 26 percent more likely to have some kind of …read more
