Defined a diet that protects against pneumonia

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Australian scientists were able to determine: zinc rich in the diet protects against pneumonia (inflammation lungs). Pathogens. According to the obtained data with zinc food helps the body to cope with pneumococcal – the main causative agent of dangerous pulmonary disease.

experts experimented with mice. found that such a diet is three times more likely to provoke the development of pneumonia, ”scientists reported.

The authors of the work noted that they managed to determine the hidden mechanisms of interaction of zinc with the cells of the body and pathogens. In particular, it turned out that with zinc deficiency in nutrition and in the body phagocytes (cells of the immune system) lost the ability to control the spread of pneumococcus. development of infection and helps immune cells to destroy pneumonia pathogens.

note, that, according to WHO, nearly a third of the population is not good for zinc with food and have his lack of the body. Chicken and turkey, rye products, lentils, peas.