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Diet for COPD: Can what we eat help COPD?

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NYnNJ1

08/26/2019 at 2:11 AM

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I have began to try and help my COPD with my diet. I am incorporating anti-inflammatory foods, inulin, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil, as well as anti-inflammatory herbs and spices.

Has anyone tried this path?

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11/19/2019 at 1:52 AM

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Hi @NYnNJ1‍ I changed my dietary habits after being diagnosed. I have only been diagnosed for almost a year, so it is kind of hard at this time to tell you how much it helps as far as controlling or halting COPD; however, I can tell you I feel better about myself and have more energy (still do not have tons of energy), but more than I used to.

I have increased my diet to include fish and walnuts and flax seed - all high in omega 3s. I also supplement with omega 3s and vitamins a, c, and e. I try to eat a lot of vitamin dense fruits and vegetables: bell peppers. strawberries, oranges, and kale for vitamin c and carrots, sweet potato, and spinach for vitamin A (also fish and tuna), and almonds, avocados, spinach, and more fish for vitamin e.

I also make sure to eat in a calorie deficient diet because I am still trying to lose weight. I limit simple and processed carbs, and focus on eating good complex grains and good healthy sources of protein (fish and chicken)

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I am looking for healthy foods to start eating as my copd is not responding to meds. I was told eating has a lot to do with it.

Diet for COPD: Can what we eat help COPD? https://www.carenity.us/forum/copd/living-with-copd/diet-to-help-copd-antiinflammatory-foods-and-h-1225 2021-02-20 20:46:12

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02/22/2021 at 6:25 PM

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Hello Pwrfulnay1, thank you for your comment. I've moved it to this discussion in our COPD group for more visibility. emoticon cute

Have any of you changed your diet after being diagnosed with COPD? Are there foods that we should eat or avoid to help COPD? Have your doctors given you any advice?
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I have been eating a lot of fish peanuts and cashews

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I've heard over the years to avoid dairy because it can increase phlegm. Other than that I just try to eat as healthy as I can, but I don't deny myself a treat every once and a while.

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@lawless Don't forget vit. D, and calcium, magnesium, and potassium...helps big time...

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Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well!

If you haven't seen it yet, we just published an article on COPD and diet! You can read it here: COPD: Can diet play a role in living better with the disease?

What do you think of some of the recommendations? Did you know that undernutrition can contribute to some of the symptoms of COPD?

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12/21/2020 at 10:35 PM

@KathyA‍, please read what I wrote above on using oxygen. I am so, so, thrilled to have portable oxygen that gave me more of my life back. I was told in 2011 when I lived in San Miguel de Allende at 6,400 ft altitude that I needed to go on oxygen, but all I saw around town was one woman with the heavy metal canisters in a cart behind her, and that looked terrible. I moved back to near sea level and put off needing oxygen all day for another seven years, just a Bipap at night.

Finally I was huffing and having to stop every few feet even near sea level, but I still didn't want to be lugging a heavy canister behind me. I ran into an old friend who was always really active, ballroom dancing, hiking, fly fishing in rivers. And there she was with an Inogen in a backpack, doing everything she'd always done!

She showed me all about hers and the total package with machine, extra 8-hour battery, two battery chargers for house and car, carrying case, and extended warranty, was around $3,300!

Finally I saved enough for it and have loved it every minute since. I started on 2 for almost a year but had to go to 3 for every day. I switch to 4 liters a minute several times a day when I still get winded bad, and have gone up to 5 for stair climbing. I worry that I will need to go higher than 5 eventually, but I hope by then there will be sronger machines developed that go higher, though then the $500 batteries only last a few hours before needing recharging, instead of 6-8.

The portable ones now are breath-operated--you have to be breathing into the nose cannula for them to work. And my BiPap at night requires continuous flow, which the big oxygen machine Medicare covers provides, so I need both machines. Some day they may all be continuous flow and still portable.

There are cheaper, refurbished units available from the Inogen factory, too. After 1 1/2 years mine started sending strange messages and I called the factory and they sent a new one out the next day! I sent them the old one back no charge. So I am pleased with service, too.

Hope this helps you accept your machine. I am so, so happy I got mine and wish Medicare paid for everyone who needed one.(I understand in a few cases they will pay for one now, but not my particular Cigna Medicare Advantage plan.)

I bet when you go to your reunion you won't be the only one on oxygen! And everyone will be so old! The ones who are already dead and not there are the ones to think about--how many of them had COPD? Fourth leading cause of death in the US before Covid, so now we're fifth. Be glad for all the help you can get! I hope you have a wonderful reunion!

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