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How Fruit Protects the Lungs

Medical researchers find it almost impossible to produce emphysema in experimental animals, even when they force them to smoke cigarettes at a two-packa-day rate. Why? Research on fruit eating offers a clue. British researchers divided 3,000 smokers and nonsmokers into two groups, those who regularly ate fruit and those who didn't. Then they measured their breathing capacity, and found that the fruit eaters-whether smokers or nonsmokers-had much stronger lungs. This is most likely due to the extra vitamin C the fruit eaters ate, which protects the lungs by squelching harmful free radicals and by helping the body repair whatever tissue damage does occur. Most experimental animals make their own vitamin C, and they maintain higher concentrations of it than we humans do. So when medical researchers try to give them emphysema, their self-made vitamin C protects them. We don't have the capacity to make our own vitamin C, which is one of the reasons why regular fruit eating is so good for us. - D. P. Strachan et aI., "Ventilatory function and winter fruit consumption in a random sample of British adults," Thomx46 (1991): 624-29.

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