The Rural Voice, 2000-03, Page 11Scrap Book
Apples help
breathing, British
doctors say
An apple a day may indeed keep
the doctor away if he's a respir-
atory specialist, a study published
in the British medical journal
Thorax, says.
In the study,
researchers from St.
George's Hospital
in Londo4
examined the health
records of 2,500 men
between the ages of 45 and 59
whom other scientists had followed
for five years. The men were
questioned about their eating habits
and their lung capacity was tested.
After factors like smoking and
exercise were eliminated, the
results show those who ate at least
five apples a week could blow
three per cent more air in one
second than those who didn't.
Scientists previously have found
better lung function is linked to
eating fresh fruit and taking
antioxidant vitamin pills and that
lung disease and lung cancer are
seen less frequently in people who
eat lots of hard fruit such as apples.
The study also confirmed earlier
findings that vitamin E is
associated with easier breathing,
but the connection is weaker than
for apples. It also looked at the
influence of vitamin C, beta
carotene, citrus fruit and fruit
juices. None of these seemed to
improve lung function.
Paul Lachance, executive
director of the Nutraceuticals
Institute at Rutgers Institute at
Rutgers University in New Jersey,
said it was plausible the benefit
came from the antioxidants in
apples, but it was unlikely only a
single antioxidant was at work.
Experts believe apples are
loaded with several hundred
healthy compounds and it may be
the unique combination of those
nutrients that creates the effect,
Lachance said.0
— Source: Associated Press
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