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Article: How to improve your lungs even if you have COPD.(chronic obstructive lung disease)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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My mother smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for about 20 years. Then she stopped, cold, and never picked up a cigarette again. Forty years later, she was diagnosed with a progressive and often fatal disease called COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The disease is frightening because you become short of breath or unable to breathe deeply and easily. My mother's COPD was related to her past smoking and her lack of exercise throughout her life. It contributed to her discomfort and eventually to her death. But COPD is not limited to smokers. I never smoked, and I was heading for COPD until a few years ago.
COPD is a result of one or more lung ...