A study presented last Sunday at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress in Amsterdam suggests that low-fat yogurt intake during pregnancy may increase the chance of a child developing asthma and hay fever later in life.
The goal of the study was to determine whether fatty acids found in dairy products could protect children from developing allergic diseases. The results found that milk can actually protect against the development of asthma, but researchers are still debating results which suggests that eating low-fat yogurt results in an about 1.6 times increase a child's chance of suffering from asthma by the time he turns 7.
Lead researcher Ekaterina Maslova of the Harvard School of Public Health said in a statement that more studies need to be conducted to establish the link. Factors such as non-fat related components found in low-fat yogurt may cause the risk of asthma and hay fever in children. Researchers also suggest that low-fat yogurt consumption may serve as an indicator for other lifestyle and dietary choices made by pregnant women which affect their children.
Researchers are still assessing the results of the data found in this study and are continuing to conduct more studies that attempt to clarify the surprising results.
-compiled by Shatila Zaman
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