Air pollution negates beneficial effects of exercise on lungs
Exercising outdoors in highly polluted areas means you are breathing in diesel fumes, particulate matter and other toxins. A new study shows that this will not only slow you down, but will lead you to take deeper breaths and result in a second-rate work out.
Professor of environmental health science at NYU School of Medicine, George Thurston, said “Usually when you exercise your lung function improves. But as ozone levels rose, we saw that benefit shrink to the point where there was no improvement in lung capacity. In short, the benefits of exercising are absolutely diminished by ozone on high-pollution days.”
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