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Chronic bronchitis is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that involves a cough that lasts for three months or more per year for two years.<\/p>\nChronic bronchitis is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that involves a cough that lasts for three months or more per year for two years.<\/p>\n
It is often blamed on smoking, but a new study published in BMC Public Health<\/em> wanted to know whether diet had anything to do with it.<\/p>\n And the results were shocking. Not only did they find that diet was influential, they found that eating right reduces people\u2019s risk of bronchitis by a shocking 92%.<\/p>\n The researchers used the Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010) as a reference.<\/p>\n The study method was meticulous and well-structured. The scientists recruited 84 people diagnosed with COPD and compared them with 252 healthy individuals. The researchers assessed their diet, smoking habits, and physical activity levels using questionnaires.<\/p>\n The Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI-2010) score, a tool used to gauge diet quality, ranges from zero to 120. A score of zero represents a poor diet, whereas 120 signifies a diet that aligns perfectly with the HEI-2010 dietary guidelines.<\/p>\n They then used statistical tools to analyze the relationship between their subjects’ HEI-2010 scores and the odds of developing COPD.<\/p>\n These were the precise findings:<\/em><\/p>\n 2.\tPeople with the highest HEI score were 82% less likely to have COPD.<\/p>\n 3.\tEven after they excluded the effects of body mass index, people with higher HEI-2010 scores had a staggering 92% reduced likelihood of having COPD.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n Therefore, a higher quality diet is associated with a considerably lower chance of developing COPD, including chronic bronchitis.<\/p>\n It\u2019s therefore safe to conclude that chronic bronchitis is mostly preventable via sensible eating.<\/p>\n So, what exactly is the HEI-2010?<\/p>\n The Healthy Eating Index 2010 is a tool developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to measure diet quality and assess how well the foods a person eats aligns with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.<\/p>\n The foods that score highly are fruit (excluding juice), vegetables, green vegetables, legumes, soy products, whole grains, low-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, poultry, seafood, lean meat, and higher intake of unsaturated fats compared with saturated varieties.<\/p>\n The foods that detract from your score are refined grains, salt, saturated fats, solid fats, alcohol, added sugars, and other empty calories.<\/p>\n If you look at the impressive length of the recommended list compared with the shortness of the non-recommended list, it shouldn’t be too difficult to enjoy a diet that protects you from COPD and chronic bronchitis.<\/p>\n\n