Eating apples in pregnancy could prevent babies developing asthma, new research has found.

A survey of 2,000 mothers done at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland made the link.

Researchers asked pregnant women about their eating habits, then monitored their babies' health to the age of five.

Women who ate four or more apples a week were half as likely to have an asthmatic child as those who ate fewer or none.

A benefit of eating fish was lower incidence of eczema in children, the study also found.

Pregnant women who ate fish at least once a week had around half the chance of a child who developed eczema.

The results were presented to the American Thoracic Society conference, which is on now in San Francisco. The University of Utrecht in the Netherlands worked with Aberdeen on the project.

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