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06/08/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Being a couch potato increases your risk of asthma: Study

An inactive lifestyle has many negative effects, including serious chronic diseases. A study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology added one more ailment to the list – environmentally induced asthma. The study was authored by researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They compared markers for chronic disease between inactive […]

05/06/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Sign of lung disease? The average adult is left breathless 6x a week, just by doing light-to-moderate exercise

Normally, a person doing light-to-moderate exercise will not run out of breath. However, a study commissioned by the British Lung Foundation found that the average adult is left breathless six times a week by simply doing light-to-moderate physical activity. In the study of 2,000 adults, researchers discovered that more than 25 percent of the participants exercise […]

10/10/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Lung deaths and smoking diseases spike among impoverished populations

The number of Americans dying due to a chronic respiratory disease has increased by 30 percent in 34 years mainly among the poverty-stricken populations, according to a report by The Daily Mail. The researchers behind the University of Washington study analyzed the death records for chronic respiratory diseases from 1980 to 2014 from the United States […]

09/27/2017 / By Russel Davis

Reverse damage from smoking just by quitting: The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself

A recent study published in the American Chemical Society‘s Journal of Proteome Research reveals that quitting cigarette smoking may still reverse the damage done by years of tobacco use. A 2013 study once suggested that changes in metabolic profiles a few months after quitting smoking may speed up the recuperation process among smokers and may lead to such as improved lung function […]

07/14/2017 / By Russel Davis

10 Ways to DETOXIFY your dirty lungs

Tobacco smoking remains to be the primary driver in lung disease onset. Other factors that contribute to respiratory disease onset include air pollution, occupational chemicals and dusts, and frequent lower respiratory infections during childhood. With these risk factors at hand, it might prove beneficial to undergo lung detox to stave off respiratory issues. Here are a […]

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