Fast food and asthma and allergy: Be afried, be deeply afried?

This 2016 study examined the relationship between the consumption of drinks containing excess free fructose (EFF beverages) and the incidence of asthma in children. Simultaneously, DeChristopher et al. tested whether the intake of high EFF beverages (such as apple juice or beverages sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup) is linked with an elevated risk of asthma […]

While diet has emerged as a potential contributor to the rise in immune-mediated diseases, the focus of this 2014 article is the Western diet, a diet characterized by the low diversity and overconsumption of refined sugars, salt, and saturated fats. The main objective here was to explain the mechanisms by which the Western diet influences […]