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Top Foods for Healthy Lungs

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Top Foods for Healthy Lungs

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Understanding what to eat in terms of foods for lung health is essential for anyone’s well-being. Here in the US over 12.1 million Americans suffer from COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. For these people, and indeed anyone looking to obtain a holistic healthy lifestyle, eating the correct diet, and partaking in regular physical activity, will help to maintain arm, chest, and leg muscles in good condition, and strengthen the supply of oxygen to the hearts and lungs.


Diet can Improve Lung Health
It may surprise some people to hear that the food they eat can affect their breathing. But of course you have to bear in mind the fact that the food you consume acts as the fuel for maintaining all of your body systems, and provides the energy for all of the physical activities that you undertake.

By eating the right foods, and feeding your body the nutrients that it needs, you will help to strengthen and nurture your cardiovascular system, looking after both your heart and your lungs.

You will in effect breathe more easily and freely.


The right Nutritional balance in Essential
Your diet must include the right blend of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. When your body metabolizes carbohydrate, it creates more carbon dioxide than when it metabolizes fat. That’s why for some people who suffer with COPD, being on a diet that contains less carbohydrate, and more fat, actually can help them to breathe more easily. Of course it needs to be the right kind of fat, although recent news about the misunderstood dangers of saturated fats may change the way we look at these in future.

In terms of foods for lung health, you must first understand your body’s need of nutrition, and what that nutrition facilitates. You need:

• A calorie intake that matches your energy use

• A carbohydrate intake that provides sufficient stamina

• A protein intake that provides sufficient strength for muscles

• A fat intake for added energy


In addition to these important elements, you must also ensure your diet includes sufficient fiber, vitamins, and minerals. These are all important, not only for lung health, but for good body system function, and overall well-being.


Help your Lungs to Last
As Dr Norman H Edelman, the chief medical officer of the American Lung Association says, “Your lungs are very durable providing they are not attacked from the outside.” Dr Edelman goes on to say that ordinarily, your lungs won’t get into trouble unless you actually get them into trouble yourself. It goes without saying therefore that smoking is an absolute no-no.

Here in this article we are going to be looking specifically at the best foods for lung health, so let’s cut to the chase and make a start.


Lung Health Food # 1 – Dark Green Leafy Vegetables
Dark green leafy vegetables are one of the top foods for lung health. They are a rich source vitamin C, as well, as the Carotenoids Lutein and Zeaxanthin. Carotenoids are fat soluble pigments that are found in plants, and these 2 Carotenoids in particular may help to reduce the risk of lung, and breast cancer according to theNational Centre for Biotechnology Information (a US government funded body) website.


Lung Health Food # 2 – Grapefruit
In terms of foods for lung health, Grapefruit needs to go high on the list. That’s because it contains a certain Flavanoid called Naringin which is said to be able to inhibit the activation of certain enzymes that can cause cancer. In addition, Grapefruits are said to be a help in cleaning the lungs once smokers have kicked the habit.


Lung Health Food # 3 – Apples
We are all aware of the saying that an Apple a day keeps the doctor away. The general health benefits of Apple’s have already been very well documented, but not so, in terms of the lungs; and yet there is plenty of evidence to show that they are one of the best foods around for lung health. The applepolyphenols.com website records how, in one particular study carried out in Hawaii, documents a 40 to 50% decrease in the risk of lung cancer amongst the people who ingested the highest amount of Flavonoids from Apple’s.


Lung Health Food # 4 – Onions
It appears that it’s not just an Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but that an onion does too. Onions contain a particular Flavonoid known as Quercitin. As well as being able to provide a certain amount of protection against lung and prostate cancer, the consumption of onions is also said to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.


Lung Health Food # 5 – Cruciferous Vegetables
Cruciferous vegetables, which are rich in Isothiocyanates are another on the list of foods for lung health. They can significantly reduce the incidence of lung cancer by as much as 23%, according to research published on the NCBI website.

Cruciferous vegetables include Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower and Kale. As well, as containing Isothiocyanates, these vegetables also contain rich levels of Chlorophyll that helps to both clean and produce blood. In addition they also a good source of a variety of antioxidants.


Lung Health Food # 6 – Pomegranates
Although in terms of humans it’s still early days, Pomegranates have demonstrated an ability to reduce both the growth and spread of lung cancer cells (and perhaps even prevent lung cancer from developing) amongst mice. This is according to a recent study undertaken by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, using pomegranate extract.

In mice that were studied during the research, a tumor reduction of 53.9% was observed after 84 days, and 61.6% after 140 days. The use of Pomegranates in herbal medicine dates back centuries. They contain higher levels of antioxidants than things like red wine and green tea, both of which are substances that have previously been under investigation for their cancer prevention potential.


Lung Health Food # 7 – Legumes, Seeds and Nuts
Legumes, Seeds, and Nuts are all rich sources of the mineral Magnesium, a mineral, which is essential for lung health. In addition, these products of Mother Nature also prove to be a good source of essential fatty acids, which are necessary for cardiovascular health.


Lung Health Food # 8 – Turmeric
Turmeric is known to be one of nature’s most powerful, natural medicines. It contains a substance known as Curcumin, which even now is still under current research for its healing potential. Turmeric has been used in alternative, herbal medicine over the centuries, and has been documented for its ability as one of the foods for lung health as well as being able to help to prevent colon, and liver disease. For more information about the wonderful health benefits of Turmeric, check out the naturalnews.com website.


Look after your Lungs
Having poor lung health is one of the most debilitating circumstances anyone can find themselves in. There is almost nothing worse than not being able to draw living giving breath. It makes you realise just how important food and lung health can be.

In order to keep your lungs in good working order, or to help them to recover following an illness, or even if you’ve recently given up the habit of smoking, eating the right diet is essential. But to maximize you holistic health lifestyle, diet alone is not enough. You must exercise too.
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