Food & Supplements For Better Breathing

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

According to the American Lung Association, 1/3 of Americans have an environmental risk factor that may contribute to their asthma, COPD, lung cancer, allergies, and heart disease due to our current air quality. Since we can’t control air pollution or wildfires, we can try to reduce the burden on our lungs and to reduce our inflammation from the inside out. And since this is a nutrition podcast, we’re going to talk about foods and nutrients that can help keep our airways healthy and support our immune system. Join our two dietitians as they give some practical tips on supporting lung health!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:13.2	We are a Minnesota company that specializes in real food, nutrition, education, and counseling.
0:19.6	This show, Dishing Up Nutrition has been helping people connect what they eat to how
0:24.3	they feel for the last 20 years.
0:27.2	And we're so grateful for you, our listeners, whether this is your first episode or your
0:32.3	500th.
0:33.6	In this weekly show, we also strive to provide real deal down-to-earth solutions to healthier
0:40.3	living through eating real food. My name is Teresa Wagner and I am a registered and licensed
0:46.6	dietitian. I'm here today with my co-host, Leah Kleinschrode, who is also a registered
0:52.3	dietitian. Today we are going to be sharing some foods and supplements for better breathing.
0:59.6	An interesting topic, and it's always good to be back in studio with you, Teresa. So I was preparing for today's topic. I did a little light reading.
1:08.7	So the American Lung Association puts out a state of the air publication every year. So I was just perusing. A little light reading. Just a little light reading before bed, nothing too serious. And so I was perusing the 2024 report. And the thing is that the data that they're looking at is usually a couple of years
1:28.3	behind, like the actual year that we're in. So they were this time around they're looking at
1:32.4	data from 2020 to 2022. And this particular report focuses on ozone and fine particle pollution,
1:40.6	which are the most harmful forms of pollution that's out there in the air.
1:45.8	And what they found was that 131.2 million Americans live in places with failing grades for
1:54.6	unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution. So that's a third of Americans now have this environmental risk factor that may contribute
2:04.2	to their asthma, COPD, lung cancer, allergies, heart disease, and even, say, like,
2:12.8	post-COVID symptoms.
2:15.2	So higher air pollution can even make you more susceptible to infections overall,
2:19.5	since pollution is a burden on the immune system. Now, most air pollution, of course,
2:25.3	it comes from the industry and transportation sectors, but in more recent years, we've also
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