Women's low-fat yogurt during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of developing asthma and hay fever in children - the authors of the new study. The report, published at the next conference of the European Respiratory Society, noted that one of the possible causes of such a phenomenon may be the absence of fatty acids in such products that perform a protective function in the body, according to the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years Pannochka. Net As a result of a large-scale study, scientists analyzed the diet during pregnancy of 70,000 Danish women, and its subsequent impact on the health of children, especially in the early years of their lives.

It was found that the consumption of fat-free yogurt with fruit flavor once a day during pregnancy increases 1.6 times the risk of developing asthma in a child during the first 7 years of his life. According to statistics, the risk of children suffering from allergic rhinitis (hay fever). At the same time, researchers concurrently concluded that no other dairy product has a similar effect on the child's body. Moreover, scientists are convinced that milk, by contrast, contains components that can protect a child from many diseases, including asthma.

Ekaterina Maslova, the leading author of the study from the Harvard School of Public Health, is convinced that such an effect of skimmed yogurt on the baby's body is due to the lack of fatty acids in it that the producers of these foods eliminate specifically.

"The results obtained suggest that fatty acids play a very important role in the development of healthy offspring. At the same time, the available data are objectively inadequate to be able to say something unambiguously-for it is not impossible to exclude the possibility that women who use low-fat yogurt usually have a similar diet or lifestyle. We must recheck the results in new studies. "She notes..

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