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Diet linked to increase in children's asthma

 Modern eating habits may be one of the main causes of the huge rise in asthma that has left one in five children with the disease.

The wrong diet, including those with low amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables, can lead to an eightfold increase in the risk of asthma, say researchers.

Britain has some of the highest rates of asthma in Europe, and latest research shows that teenagers here have the highest rates of severe wheezing in the world.

But although asthma has reached epidemic proportions, doctors are still not sure what causes it or why it is increasing at such an alarming rate.

For years, pollution took much of the blame, and a huge number of suspects ranging from car exhausts, the weather and cigarettes, to dust mites, antibiotics, and homes that are too clean, have been investigated.

But our children's eating habits are now fast emerging as a prime suspect. Increasing evidence suggests that a poor diet, especially one low in antioxidant and vitamin content, could be implicated.

'I think diet is the factor that has made the biggest contribution to increased asthma in wealthier countries. I can't see anything else that has changed that could have had this effect,' says Professor Anthony Seaton, of the University of Aberdeen, who has been carrying out diet and asthma research work with 2,000 pregnant women and their babies.

Each year in Britain there are 1,500 deaths from asthma and 74,000 hospital casualty attendances. Over the past three years the number of asthma sufferers has increased from 3.7 million to 5.1 million.

Asthma is a disease of the lungs and of the air tubes leading to them. It causes the walls of the bronchioles, the tiny airways in the lungs, to swell and produce mucus so that it becomes difficult to breathe.

It is thought some people have a genetic susceptibility but that environmental triggers are also needed to turn the inherited risk into real disease.

The European Community Respiratory Health Survey of 22 countries shows that the highest rates are in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S., while the lowest are in the Mediterranean countries, Eastern Europe, and India.

'The fact that we can show geographical variations suggests differences are due to environmental factors, not only pollution, but also the food people eat and the way they live,' says Dr Christer Janson who led the study.