Apples which are eaten by women during pregnancy in fact can help to sprevent asthma and allergie on children. Flavonoid inside apples that provide these benefits. A new study examining foods of nearly 2000 pregnant women and checked the lung health of 1253 children at the age of 5.
Among the variety of foods that are eaten and recorded by pregnant women, only apple consumption that showed a consistent protection against asthma and shortness of breath. The children of pregnant mothers who eat more than 4 apples per week as much as 37% which had less history about shortness of breath and had 53% less of asthma after confirmed by the doctor, compared with mothers who ate one or no apples per week during pregnancy.
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Asthma occurs because the lungs can not be function and develop properly due to the enlargement of the lungs wrapping (pleura), so the expansion was blocked by the chest and back and precisely the lungs wrapping are pressed into the lungs, and eventually the development of lungs are not maximum and the oxygen filling is decrease. Enlargement or swelling of the lungs wrapping comes from flexibility of the ribs, to be exact on the part of major or minor chest, and then causing the supply of fluid in the lungs wrapping is blocked.