Reading this article I have found out some strange, yet useful information for pregnant, or expecting mothers. A study was presented at European Respiratory Society's annual Congress in Amsterdam, that pregnant mothers who eat low fat yogurt are 1.6 times more likely to end up with a child who develops asthma or hay fever. They study was aimed to look at fatty acids in dairy products and to see if they would help prevent allergies in new born babies, however they had the opposite effect. Studies showed that milk intake did not have the same effect, the only dairy product that caused these allergens was the low fat yogurt. The scientists suggested that maybe it was not the yogurt, but the low fat components in the yogurt that were having this effect on the child. Scientists are also going to further their research to see if low fat foods have any other effects on our lifestyles.
There seems to be a lot of things pregnant women can't eat or drink, so this article doesn't surprise me. However, i find it strange because isn't low fat yogurt supposed to be healthy?
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