A High Fat Diet Reduces Effectiveness of Asthma Medication

http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20100517/asthma-patients-danger-lurks-in-fatty-meals

“This is the first study to show that a high-fat meal increases airway inflammation, so this is a very important finding,” says study author Leslie Wood, PhD, a research fellow at the University of Newcastle in Australia. “The high-fat meal impaired the asthmatic response to albuterol. In subjects who had consumed a high-fat meal, the post-albuterol improvement in lung function at three and four hours was suppressed.”

Yet another reason food deserts should be targeted for eradication in poverty stricken neighborhoods. No fresh apples in sight but plenty of fast food meals and obesity.