Your child’s diet directly influences their health.
We are learning more every day that what you eat may directly effect your health and whether or not you develop certain illnesses. Two recent studies have reinforced this notion. Your health is substantially related to what and how well you eat, not as a secondary result of obesity but a direct negative effect on your body. These new studies are indicating that the quality of the food, the relationship between sugar and glycemic index as well as poor nutrition causes inflammatory reactions which are now thought related to the development or expression of conditions such as asthma and diabetes.
      In the first study it was observed that people who ate low fiber and high glycemic index foods ( high sugar content } equating to poor nutritional habits, had a much higher chance of developing diabetes. We all thought it was merely a scare tactic when our parents, grandparents, and teachers told us “if you eat too much sugar you will get Diabetes”. Physicians in general, would tell you this is nonsense , “there is no causal relationship between how much sugar you eat and developing diabetes”, But recently a study indicated that this might actually be the case. In this study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, based on research from a number of Universities including the University of California, Los Angeles, and Oxford University , it was shown that for every 100 grams of sugar per 2000 calorie diet people ate over the average sugar intake there was a 45% higher chance of becoming Diabetic. “People who eat a lot of low-fiber and processed foods” ( junk and unhealthy sugar filled foods)  that cause quick jump in blood sugar and the subsequent overuse of our insulin have a “higher risk of the most common form of diabetes, according to this study.”
       In a similar fashion the second study, published in the medical journal  Thorax, indicated that poor nutrition such as an abundance of fast foods and junk food also have a relationship to inflammation in your child’s system including increasing their chances of having asthma, eczema, and a nasal inflammation called rhinoconjunctivitis. In this study it was shown that "Eating fast food meals at least three times a week was linked to a 39% increased risk of severe asthma in teenagers and a 27% increased risk.