Food chemoprevention and air pollution: the health comes with eating

Ambient air pollution is known to be an important causative agent of many non-communicable diseases, mainly due to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). According to Global Burden Disease study in 2015, the estimated premature deaths caused by PM 2.5 were 4.2 million. Besides deaths, airborne pollution’s effect on human health also has dramatic economic and social costs, contributing greatly to disability-adjusted life-year (DALY). To reduce the...