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*EIGHT STUDENTS WERE KILLED* late last Wednesday in New Delhi when a truck ploughed into them as they waited for the bus on a roadside.
CHOKING STUDENTS and citizens in both India and Pakistan, continue to seek mercy, as Delhi restricts vehicles as smog submerges both countries.
New Delhi has now banned all construction, barred lorries from entering the city and announced stringent restrictions on private cars use last Thursday, seeking to combat massive spike in pollution across large swathes of India and Pakistan.
Tens of Thousands of schools in Delhi and surrounding states remained closed as a hazardous fog of toxic pollution cloaked the region for the third day, bringing urgent calls for government to tackle what doctors are calling a Public Healthy Emergency.
So, a butterfly takes wings again as The World Students Society meets to figure Smogs blinding legacy.......*A diet that protects against air pollution*
Research suggests that a Mediterranean like diet may safeguard the body.
B vitamins may keep these potentially dangerous genes silent.
Yet another study, conducted in Mexico, indicated that vitamins C and E could, when given to asthmatic children, prevent ozone from diminishing long function.
So should we all load up on supplements? Here, caution is warranted.
First, the supplement industry isn't regulated. Quality control is questionable. But more important, excess supplementation may cause a different kind of harm.
A number of studies have shown that people who supplement with certain vitamins, including E and B's, have a greater risk of cancer than those who don't.
In one study voles given vitamins E and C had shorter life spans than their untreated brethren.
There is a deeper lesson here about the dangers of trying to reduce imagined healthy behavior to just a few simple components.
Observational studies have long suggested that people who eat lots of fruit, vegetables and whole grains have a lower risk of various chronic and degenerative diseases.
So years ago, some researchers proposed that the dietary antioxidants, including vitamins, in these foods could explain these patterns.
These antioxidants theoretically protect us from damage by pro-oxidants.
But that explanation may be incorrect.
In recent years, a more nuanced idea has emerged. Yes, vitamins are important to our health. But we may actually require some mount of the supposedly dangerous ''pro oxidant'' signals to stay healthy.
If that signal is completely quashed, we may end up weaker, not stronger.
Thus in one highly cited German study, people given the antioxidant vitamins C and E after a workout -exercise causes a short term proliferation of pro oxidants -failed to grow stronger.
By neutralizing the free radicals, the thinking goes, antioxidants cancelled the benefits of exercise, preventing strengthening.
Today some think that many biological active substances in plant-rich diets aren't improving health by acting as antioxidants at all.
Instead, these substances seem to activate our own, intrinsic protective mechanisms. It's this response that makes us more resilient to subsequent insult, and better able to cope.
The compound sulforaphane found in things like broccoli, brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables, it is a case in point.
Rather than directly neutralizing pro-oxidants, it prompts our bodies to boost defenses and detoxify itself.
In a recent study led by scientists at John Hopkins, 148 Chinese residents of polluted region near the Yangtze River delta drank broccoli sprout drink for 12 weeks .
Excretion of toxic compounds, as measured in urine, went up compared with a group that drank placebo.
Sulforaphane wasn't shielding their bodies directly but rather increasingly their own detox capacity and helping them to expel pollutants.
Should we all drink broccoli-sprout juice?
The study's senior author, Thomas Kensler, a professor of pharmacology and chemical biology at the University of Pittsburgh, doesn't recommend it.
Too much remains unknown, he says, Sulforphane isn't the only beneficial plant chemical of this sort out there; plants produce hundreds of such substances.
He recommended you ''eat a good diet,'' which includes lots of raw or lightly cooked cruciferous vegetables, and fruits and vegetables in general.
We can't be certain it will help with the pollution, but it most likely won't hurt.
With respectful dedication to the World, Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the whole world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
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