Title: Best and Worst Foods for Asthma | Health.com
Headings: 13 Best and Worst Foods for Your Lungs
13 Best and Worst Foods for Your Lungs
Smart food choices may help you breathe easier if you have asthma.
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Apples
Cantaloupe
Carrots
Coffee
Eggs
Flax seeds
Garlic
Milk
Peanuts
Salt
Shellfish
Wine
Avocado

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13 Best and Worst Foods for Your Lungs
13 Best and Worst Foods for Your Lungs
By Amanda Gardner
Updated September 22, 2015
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Can what you eat affect asthma? Although research is far from definitive, there are some hints that this might be true. "There's really no diet that will eliminate or cure your asthma but there are certain things you could be incorporating to help," says Robert Graham, MD, an internist with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Keep in mind that individual reactions to food vary a great deal, but here are some guidelines on what to eat to possibly help asthma, or at least not make it worse. 1 of 14
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Here's one more reason to put apples on your list of foods to eat everyday. A British study found that even after controlling for other factors, people who reported eating two to five apples a week had a 32% lower risk of asthma than people who ate less.