LONDON (Reuters) – Pregnant women who eat nuts ornut products like peanut butter daily raise the risk their childrenwill develop asthma by 50 percent, Dutch researchers said onTuesday.

The study also showed that moderate amounts did not seem to havean effect, meaning it is too soon to say whether pregnant womenshould give up nuts because they contain many important nutrientsand healthy fats a developing fetus needs, they said.

“We were the first to find these strong effects on asthmasymptoms,” said Saskia Willers, an epidemiologist at UtrechtUniversity, who led the study linking nuts with asthma.

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