Regular consumption of fruits and vegetables helps to stay away from cigarettes. This was revealed by a new US study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Buffalo, who monitored the eating habits and lifestyle of 1000 smokers aged 25 and over.
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Regular consumption of fruits and vegetables helps stay away from cigarettes. To reveal it is a new US study carried out by a team of researchers from the University of Buffalo, who monitored the eating habits and lifestyle of 1000 smokers aged 25 and over.
Result? Scholars have found one close link between the diet followed by these people - with particular reference to the consumption of fruit and vegetables - elto decrease, or even eliminate, the habit of smoking.
“We knew from previous studies - he explained Gary A. Giovino, lead researcher of the study also published in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research - that those who are abstinent from cigarettes for less than six months consume more fruit and vegetables than those who still smoke. However, we didn't know that smokers who do likewise have a better chance of quitting. Those who consume more fruit and vegetables than others are 3 times more likely to quit smoking for at least 1 month. This is regardless of gender, age, education or other factors that usually influence the choice to quit ".
According to the researchers, a diet based on the regular consumption of fruit, and therefore rich in fiber, tends to make you more satiated and satisfied and this contributes significantly to reducing the desire to smoke.
But that's not all, because fruits and vegetables tend to worsen the taste of tobacco, while other foods, such as coffee and meat, tend on the contrary to improve and enhance it.
So if you are a smoker, today you have one more reason to eat healthier and increase your consumption of fruit and vegetables!
Verdiana Amorosi
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