Excessive fat can take your breath away - Health & Families - Life & Style - The Independent

Excessive fat can take your breath away - Health & Families - Life & Style - The Independent: The researchers were surprised to find that the fatty diet also impacted the effectiveness of asthma medications, like albuterol. Wood added, "This is the first study to show that a high fat meal increases airway inflammation, so this is a very important finding. The observation that a high fat meal changes the asthmatic response to albuterol was unexpected as we hadn't considered the possibility that this would occur."