From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-380579-717939
UTRECHT, Netherlands (UPI) -- Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut
products daily during pregnancy increase the risk their child will
develop asthma, Dutch researchers said.
"We were pretty surprised to see the adverse associations between
daily vs. rare nut product consumption during pregnancy and symptoms
of asthma in children, because we haven't seen this in similar
previous studies," lead author Saskia M. Willers of Utrecht
University, the Netherlands, said in a statement.
It is "too early to make recommendations of avoidance," but "it's
important for pregnant women to eat healthily, and what is true for
many foods is that too much is never good."
In a study by the Dutch government, nearly 4,000 expectant mothers
completed a dietary questionnaire that asked how often they consumed
vegetables, fresh fruit, fish, eggs, milk, milk products, nuts and nut
products during the past month. Their children's diets were also
assessed. Asthma and allergy symptoms were assessed yearly in the
children until age 8.
"The only consistent association between the maternal intake of the
investigated food groups during pregnancy and childhood asthma
symptoms until 8 years of age that we found was with nut products,"
Willers said.
The study is published in the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine.