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...study, co-authored by Harvard School of Public Health Professor Steven L. Gortmaker, examined rates of asthma, obesity, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in young children and explored both the causes and long-term effects of these ailments...
...that time, asthma was pretty well defined," he said. "But ADHD was not as well defined, and obesity was not really recognized as a major health problem...
Gortmaker published his first paper documenting the increases in childhood obesity about 20 years ago, and he wrote about the growing rate of asthma in children in the mid-1990s...
Excessive television watching from an early age—one of the factors that Gortmaker pointed to in the paper as a potential cause for all three conditions—can also lead to higher prevalence for ADHD and even for asthma, due to decreased exposure to fresh...
...study done in Scotland several months after that nation instituted a ban on smoking in public places, researchers found that following the ban, bar patrons showed stronger lung capacity and reduced levels of inflammation (a red flag for a number of chronic diseases, including heart disease and asthma). "We made it pretty clear that the science on this is pretty irrefutable," says McKenna. And if smokers have fewer places to smoke, that message may finally get heard...