Asthmatic Children ‘Worsened by Traffic’
Aug 13, 2009 | Posted by in Featured, Oranic and Natural Living | 0 Comments
Pollution from traffic causes asthma to worsen in children, BioMed Central reports.
Health care articles published by the organisation include recent research from the Institute Nacional de Sauld Publica in Mexico.
The research facility found that pollution from motor vehicles is particularly damaging to asthmatic children’s respiratory condition compared with other contaminants.
Diesel vehicles in particular were identified as likely to cause the most damage to children’s ability to breathe.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, urban regions were associated with a greater level of risk, with city-dwellers suffering the most severe worsening of respiratory health.
Within cities, small public transport buses powered by natural gas or petrol were seen to rank alongside diesel-fuelled lorries and heavy goods vehicles as most damaging.
In other health care articles relating to younger people, BioMed Central recently reported the discoveries of the Institute of Metabolic Science.
The institute found that, in the UK, many children are achieving the desired amounts of physical exercise as recommended by the government.
Among the ten-year-olds examined, nearly seven in ten were achieving recommended exercise levels, prompting the researchers to recommend alternative areas of focus for increasing young citizens’ basic health in the future.
Promoting greater consumption of fruit and vegetables was suggested as one alternative.