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In its infancy, sometimes children need a certain amount of food that can provide more benefits than any other food. The
team of researchers from the Netherlands found that babies who were fed
fish when aged between six months to a year less likely to develop
asthma than babies who were fed fish before or after the age of six
months for a year.
"The
results of this study support the theory that previous findings that
exposure to fatty acids in fish may protect kids from asthma attacks,"
said lead researcher Jessica Kiefte-de Jong of Erasmus Medical Center,
Rotterdam as quoted from health24, Sunday (18/11 / 2012).
By
using the data of diet and medical record 7210 children born between
the years 2002-2006 in Rotterdam, the researchers found that the 1281
child first fish fed the first six months of life, children eat fish
5498 the first time between the ages of 6-12 months and 431 children do not eat fish up to a year old.
Then
the researchers looked at the medical records of the participants when
she was four years old and parent reports on the child's asthma symptoms
such as wheezing or shortness of breath.
Was
40 percent and 45 percent of parents whose children are not being fed
fish by claiming his first birthday when her child had wheezing parents
of children who eat fish at between 6-12 months of age and reported
their child had symptoms of asthma is as much as 30 percent.
In
addition researchers revealed that the reduction in the risk of asthma
in children who first ate fish when aged between 6-12 months to reach 36
percent of the first child while eating fish before the age of six
months and a year after the age of risk for asthma of the same
magnitude.
In response to this study, T. Bernard
Kinane of MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston said, "They found a
protective effect only occurs in infants between the ages of 6-12
months. This makes sense because that is the time when the immune system
is central to protecting educated."
source: health24
