Asthma: eat more fruits and vegetables!
And if the fruits and vegetables were the major drugs of this century? After remarkable results in preventing cancers, they are poised to demonstrate their effectiveness in preventing asthma.
1. Asthma: asthmatic lack of vitamin C
Good news for asthma prevention: eat more fruits and vegetables may have a substantial preventive effect.
At least that can be deduced from a study recently showing that people with asthma eat less fruit and vegetables than those not prone to asthma and their levels of vitamin C significantly lower …
The difference is important witnesses, subjects with asthma consuming only 132 g per day of fruits and vegetables against 149 grams for people without asthma.
17 grams difference a day makes it much faster!
Equally interesting: 51% of people with asthma never eat citrus (orange, grapefruit, lemon), fruit particularly rich in vitamin C.
2. Asthma or not: it has everything to gain by eating fruits and vegetables!
Can one say that if people with asthma were eating more fruit and vegetables, they would be better off? It is very likely that YES for several reasons:
- Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that consumes a lot of antioxidants like vitamin C: any deficiency is even worse,
- in general, consume more fruits and vegetables is good for health,
- fruits and vegetables regularly to replace fat that conversely maintain inflammation.