how cigarettes affect our nutriirionsThere is scientific consensus that cigarette smoking causes cancer, heart disease, emphysema, peptic ulcers, among other diseases. In addition, smoking can also affect our nutritional status.

Smoking cigarettes is known consequences for the health of people. If not taken care of food, it ends up causing more damage than just snuff it.

If nicotine addiction is high, smokers should change their eating habits in order to mitigate the effects of smoking on your body.

Some factors:

Carbon monoxide is inhaled it can lower levels of HDL (good cholesterol) becoming an independent risk factor for developing coronary problems.

There is loss of antioxidant vitamins, which prevent free radicals from oxidizing cells. For example, vitamin A deficiency is one of the main reasons for the deterioration of the lungs.

In pregnant women who smoke, in addition to getting risk of placenta previa, stillbirth and spontaneous abortion if possible, reduce nutritionally vitamin C, zinc, folic acid and iron. These nutrients are important for the prenatal, fetal development and prevent low birth weight infants at birth.

During lactation, a period in which feed the baby, nicotine appears in breast milk and it becomes a risk factor for the infant because it becomes a passive smoker.

The best thing you can do to improve your health and wellbeing is to quit smoking. If you want to quit and you’re worried that you can gain weight here are some tips. Smoking is more harmful to your health than gaining a few pounds. Making some changes as simple as improving your eating habits and your physical activity will help control weight while you quit smoking.

 

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