Apples For Your Lung Health

Apples For Your Lung Health - A recent study monitoring the dietary pattern of nearly 2,000 pregnant women and lung health check as many as 1253 people in children aged under five. Among the wide variety of food eaten and recorded by pregnant women, only apple consumption showed consistent protection against asthma.

Children with mothers who ate four apples a week, found 37 percent less often experience shortness of breath and 53 percent less often suffer from asthma, compared with mothers who ate less than 1 apple per week during pregnancy.

Specific relationship was found in apples, and not on the amount of fruit that is eaten or on citrus, fruit juice or vegetable consumption, pointing to-apple specific effect, possibly because of its unique flavonoids, which seem to have a beneficial effect on lung function in adult.