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 allergy, be it asthma, hay fever, food or skin allergies.

What I’d like to know is what comes first – the obesity or the allergy.

So far, the researchers don’t know. As  Dr. Darryl Zeldin, one of the researchers, says ” while the results from this study are interesting, they do not prove that obesity causes allergies. More research is needed to further investigate this potential link,”

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