COPD, including 000 deaths.
"People who consume a large amount of antioxidants would also do more exercise than those without a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. may smoke less, comply with the prescribed treatment, and the list goes on, "said Dr. Don Sin, pulmonologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , and was not involved in the study.
The new study involved 75 people with COPD who did not eat too many fruits and vegetables. At random, half increased consumption of less than two servings per day to at least five servings daily. The rest had to eat more than two servings per day.
Weekly for 12 weeks, both groups received the fruits and vegetables at home. They were told how to store and prepare them.
The group with a diet rich in fruit and vegetable consumption increased more than six servings a day, compared with less than two in the group should not change the food.
For authors, this improvement was impressive, but did not cause any positive change in lung function or markers of inflammation in the airways.
In 35 COPD patients worsened during the study, including six people who had to be hospitalized. Participants in both groups were equally likely to aggravate the symptoms are, as published by the team in the European Respiratory Journal.
The team of Michelle McKinley, Queen's University in Belfast , considered possible that a reinforcement of fruits and vegetables for a longer time did improve lung function and suggested that perhaps needed a more significant amendment of the diet.
Another explanation is that the disease would be too advanced for dietary changes may cause some difference, Irfan Rahman found that studies of COPD in the medical center at the University of Rochester in New York and was not involved in the study.
All study patients had pulmonary disease McKinley moderate or severe, and were between 60 and 70.
