After switching from breast milk, Babies up to age one whose protein intake came largely from meat products — as opposed to dairy, fish, or egg proteins showed more than eight-fold greater odds of developing asthma by age 6. Wheezing was also significantly more familiar with this dietary pattern, which the European study called “unbalanced meat consumption†(UMC); this continued up to age 10 when the odds ratio stood at nearly 5.
Parvathy Sukumaran 
