Healthy diet eases asthma: study

A healthy diet could help ease asthma symptoms, according to a new Australian study.

According to a report of Australia’s public broadcaster ABC, two studies, explaining that people on high saturated fats food diet were likely to have asthma attacks than others, was to be presented to a Thoracic Society conference in Adelaide on Wednesday.

In the study, the scientists found saturated fats reduce the effectiveness of the medicines used to treat Asthma.

Nutritional biochemist at the University of Newcastle, Lisa Wood, said ‘the researching team wanted to highlight the benefits of eating healthy foods to people with Asthma.

"The team had developed a scorecard of good and bad foods, which she hoped asthmatics would use to guide their eating," she said.

These foods, however, can never replace asthma medications but nonetheless, because of the beneficial health effects that are seen, the team really promotes this as a healthy way to change one's lifestyle which will improve asthma and one's overall health status, she said.

Diet that includes fruits and vegetables can be very helpful for reducing your risk of having an asthma attack.