Eat An Apple For Your Baby’s Health
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A new study published in Thorax Online suggests that eating apples while pregnant may help prevent asthmas later for the babies. Researchers in the Netherlands and Scotland tracked nearly 2,000 pregnant women and found that mothers who ate apples produced children who were less likely to develop asthma and childhood wheezing than those who didn’t. They found this positive association between apples and reduced risk of asthma by tracking the pregnant women’s diet, and then later evaluating the children at five years old for wheezing, asthma, and other asthma related symptoms.
Aside from apples, there were no other consistent associations found between prenatal consumption of other healthy foods and preventing asthma in the children later in life. However, the researchers did find a lower incidence of eczema in children whose mothers consumed fish while pregnant.
So moms-to-be, fill up on the apples (and maybe fish too). Fuji apples happens to be my favorite and I’m happy to say I did eat them in abundance while pregnant. Hopefully my 8 month-old won’t inherit her Dad’s history of asthma.
Note: it is not known whether apple juice, even freshly squeezed ones, has the same effect as it was not evaluated in the study.
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