Link between asthma and diet?

Professor Charles Mackay believes a connection between the immune and metabolic systems might be causing the increase in certain inflammatory diseases such as asthma in western countries.
Download this NHMRC podcast, or read the transcript of Australian Fellow Professor Mackay's interview with Carolyn Norrie, where he asserts that this discovery is potentially one of the most exciting things to happen in immunology. He explains that his Fellowship team’s investigations will cover a number of strands, including the immune-metabolic system connection, how newly discovered ‘helper’ T cells influence B cells, and how cells migrate around the body.