Air Pollution, Exercise and Your Health
Tens of millions of Americans live in areas where the air carries not only life-giving oxygen, but also noxious pollutants that reach unhealthful levels, such as ozone, carbon monoxide, fine particles, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, or lead.
Air pollution can kill, especially when several kinds of pollution work together. Ozone smog can cause problems in one-third of Americans. About 20 percent of healthy adults reacts strongly to ozone.
A Harvard University study estimated that about five percent of deaths in the typical polluted American city each year are linked to acidic particles in the air. Another study of the particulate pollution estimates that tens of thousands of premature deaths each year can be attributed to this type of air pollution.
Air pollution costs us billions of dollars every year in health care and lost productivity.
Attendees will receive the following information:
- What’s in the air, those problem pollutants
- What the numbers mean – Bay Area Pollution Levels (AQI & PSI)
- Where air pollution comes from
- How air pollution hurts our body
- Who can become sick from ozone smog
- How to protect yourself against air pollution and high ozone days
- What can you do about air pollution
- Join the Asthma Walk
- Exercising your lungs
- Air pollution and exercise
- Biology of your lungs
- Lung Function
Length of presentation: 1 hour (customizable to fit your needs).
To set up an appointment please contact Nicholas Saadi at (408) 998-5865
or email at nick@lungsrus.org