PARIS: Adults who ate more than two tomatoes a day had a slower rate of natural lung function decline, with ex-smokers seeming to benefit most of all, scientists said Thursday. Similar benefits, they said, were observed for people who ate more than three portions of fresh fruit a day, especially apples. Other factors, such as the participants´ age, height, weight, gender, income and level of physical activity, were taken into account in analysing any association between diet and lung health, the team said. They found that the rate of lung decline, which happens normally in people from about the age of 30, was slower in those who ate more tomatoes and other fruit. One weakness of the study was that participants´ diets were assessed only at the start of the study.

Source: Pakistan Today December 21, 2017 08:15 UTC