Eat to Beat Asthma

When it comes to asthma, certain foods can heal -- and others can harm.

The healing power of food extends to your lungs. What you eat -- and avoid -- may help keep you from developing asthma.

Best Choices
Have fruit every day, especially apples, oranges, grapes and tomatoes. Eat more healthy fats (like olive oil) and DHA omega-3s (fish and walnuts), which seem to prevent damage to lung tissue and reduce inflammation.

Worst Choices
Saturated fats, trans fats and cured meats with nitrates, like many cold cuts and ballpark staples. These foods worsen inflammation caused by air pollution and inhibit dilation of the airways, among other things.

From Reader's Digest - April 2008

 

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