Obese children have a 26 percent higher chance of allergies, especially to food, than their slender counterparts. The food allergy rate was 59 percent higher for this risk group.
Researchers aren’t sure yet whether the heaviness is the cause of allergies. But further study is clearly needed, as the asthma and allergy rates for kids is higher than in the past.
Altogether, 4,000 kids were surveyed through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Said director Dr. Darryl Zeldin,
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.
So what defines “obese”? And what can we do for these kiddos? [read the full article...]
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