KOMPAS.com - Burger and fries are not only bad for the waistline, but also aggravate asthma. Besides increasing the risk of airway inflammation, high-fat diet that also makes the body does not respond to therapy to control asthma. The study by a team of scientists from the University of Newcastle, it adds to evidence that environmental factors, such as diet, affects the development of asthma. In fact, in the last two decades that eating high-fat fast food increasingly popular and more people.
Although the results of studies that still need further evidence, experts suggested to reduce the intake of foods high in fat as a way to control asthma.
"When you have no further studies confirm these studies, dietary adjustments can be an important strategy for controlling asthma," says Lisa Wood, chief researcher at the University of Newcastle. Research results will be presented at the meeting of the American Thoracic Society's International Conference this week.
Asthma is a chronic condition that occurs when the main bronchi of the lungs (bronchi) become inflamed. During this time more associated with allergic asthma, there has been no research that specifically looks at the impact of high-fat diet in patients with asthma.
In his study, Wood and her team studied 40 people with asthma are divided into two groups. The first is that mengasup high-fat foods, like burgers, and other groups who were given yogurt. Foods high in fat contains 1,000 calories, 52 percent come from fat. While low-fat diet is just 200 calories, 13 percent from fat.
Based on the analysis of saliva samples, an increase of immune cells called neutrophils in the airways in the group that ate a burger. Neutrophils is a triggers inflammation. Not only that, this group is also working on controlling asthma drug in the lung also becomes slower.