Protecting your lung may be as easy...

Protecting your lung may be as easy as getting more vitamin E in your diet, according to a subject of attention published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Holger J Schunemann of the State University of strange York at Buffalo and colleagues turn the thoughtsed at the relationships between antioxidants (vitamin C vitamin E retinol and carotenoids) and pulmonary function.

The cogitation involved 1,616 participants, ages 35 to 79 all of whom were independent of respiratory illness. The researchers rest that those participants with high horizontals of vitamin E and beta-cryptoxanthin (a carotenoid) had healthier lung than those with lower evens Good sources of vitamin E include wheat embryo soybeans, broccoli, leafy green vegetables, pushs oats, almonds, peanuts and butter

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