Nutrition for Asthmatics

Exclusion Criteria

• •Diabetes or using diabetes medications that may lower blood glucose levels
• •point of care fasting blood glucose ≥126 mg/dl or triglycerides ≥400 mg/dl
• •current smoking or smoking history of greater than 10 pack-years
• •other significant respiratory or cardiac disease or the presence of clinically important comorbidities, e.g., COPD, renal failure, liver disease; uncontrolled hypertension defined as systolic blood pressure ≥160 mm/Hg, or diastolic blood pressure ≥100 mm/Hg
• •pregnant or nursing women
• •food preferences or allergies inconsistent with study diet capabilities
• •noncompliance with lead-in period requirements.