Food as medicine: how what you eat shapes the health of your lungs
Upping your intake of vegetables and fruits can do more than just reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer – it could also help you breathe easier.
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Fixing ‘leaky’ blood vessels to combat severe respiratory ailments and, perhaps, Ebola
When you get an infection, your immune system responds with an influx of inflammatory cells that target the underlying bacteria or viruses. These immune cells migrate from your blood into the infected…
‘Body clock’ impacts on lung disease treatments
Drugs widely used to treat asthma and pneumonia can become ineffective because they work with the lung cells’ body clock…
Vitamin E linked to lung problems
Canola, soybean and corn oils rich in Vitamin E have been tied to the increasing incidence of lung inflammation and asthma…
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