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How Stress in Pregnancy Affects Your Baby

7/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) We know that extreme stress is bad for any living creature and that it can lead to disease and health degradation in our bodies. Pregnancy in itself is a stressful time on a woman's body. The normal physical and hormonal changes can be quite...

Asthma Drug Worse Than Placebo, Symptoms Worsen on Withdrawal

5/30/2008 - (NaturalNews) Asthma symptoms worsen on withdrawal of the drug Accolate (zafirlukast). Benefits are seen for only the first five weeks, after which symptoms return to their original state within seven weeks. These eye-opening results were reported in...

The Importance of Staving Off a Magnesium Deficiency

5/9/2008 - (NaturalNews) The latest government study shows a staggering 68% of Americans do not consume the recommended daily intake of magnesium. Even more frightening are data from this study showing that 19% of Americans do not consume even half of the government’s...

Household Cleaners, Air Fresheners Linked to Asthma in Adults

4/29/2008 - (NaturalNews) Regular use of household cleaning sprays and air fresheners may increase the risk of adult-onset asthma, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Researchers analyzed data...

The Mushroom Master: An Interview with George Vaughan (Part 2)

3/20/2008 - (NaturalNews) Welcome back to part two of my interview with George Vaughan. George is a botanist specializing in mycology and the founder of Mushroom Harvest (www.mushroomharvest.com) , a supplier of high quality medicinal mushroom products. Adam:...

Private Study Links Vaccinations to Neurological Disorders

2/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) Studies financed by pharmaceutical corporations and government agencies - which are now largely under the control of big pharma - keep stating that there is no link between autism and vaccinations or thimerosal. As a previous News Target...

Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues...

2/8/2008 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

Thousands Exposed to Poison by Government's Aerial Spraying

12/31/2007 - (NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated. Now,...

Prenatal consumption of apples, fish shown to prevent asthma in children

11/16/2007 - (NaturalNews) The children of pregnant women who consumed more apples and fish had significantly lower rates of asthma and eczema at age five than the children of mothers who had consumed less, according to a new study conducted at the University of Aberdeen...

Antibiotics use dramatically raises risk of asthma in infants; pet dogs cut risk by 50 percent

11/14/2007 - (NaturalNews) Using antibiotics in the first year of life may significantly increase a child's risk of contracting asthma by age 7, according to a study conducted by researchers at University of Manitoba and McGill University in Montreal and published...

Gasping for Air? Put Down That Spray Cleaner

11/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) Until recently, people who experienced respiratory problems from household use of spray cleaners had no facts to back up their claims of shortness of breath or wheezing. That has changed.   Previous data linking health risks to spray...

Foods That Cure Asthma and Allergies

10/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) Outbreaks of asthma and allergies have increased considerably since the early 1980s.  Asthma statistics outline a jump of 74% for children between the ages of 5-14 years and 160% for children under four years old, according to the National...

How to Use Nutrition to Eliminate IBS and Treat Asthma, Allergies

9/25/2007 - (NaturalNews) Dr. David Dahlman, D.C., medical director of the Hyde Park Holistic Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, has developed a comprehensive program to eliminate or greatly reduce Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). In a lengthy report available as a free...

Mediterranean diet makes allergies vanish in children

6/4/2007 - Researchers studying children in Greece found that those who eat a Mediterranean diet rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, and olive oil experience less respiratory allergies and asthma than other children. Dr. Paul Cullinan of Britain's Royal Brompton...

Reducing excessive salt intake can help relieve asthma symptoms, says review

1/9/2007 - (NaturalNews) A review of scientific data by British and American researchers found that reducing salt intake might reduce the severity of asthma and breathing problems. The review -- published in the December issue of the International Journal of...

Whole grains, fish lower asthma risk in children

12/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) Children who eat whole grains and fish are far less likely to develop asthma and wheezing than children who do not consume adequate amounts of those foods, according to new Dutch research published in the journal Thorax. A team of researchers...

Low vitamin E intake during pregnancy can lead to childhood asthma (press release)

10/23/2006 - Children whose mothers had a low intake of vitamin E during pregnancy are more likely to develop wheezing and asthma by age five. This research appears in the first issue for September 2006 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...

Number of Indoor Swimming Pools Per Capita Linked to Rise in Childhood Asthma Across Europe (press release)

9/19/2006 - The prevalence of childhood asthma and wheeze rises around 2 to 3 per cent for every indoor swimming pool per 100,000 of the population across Europe, indicates research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The researchers...

Vitamin supplement could help treatment-resistant asthma (press release)

9/7/2006 - Asthma patients who don't respond to steroid treatment suffer repeated asthma attacks, and are at greater risk of dying from the condition. Researchers from King's College London have found that vitamin D3 could substantially improve the responsiveness...

UV irradiation in the home improves kids' asthma (press release)

8/30/2006 - The use of centrally installed ultraviolet (UV) irradiation units in the homes of asthmatic children who are sensitized to mold can improve their symptoms, according to a new report. The idea is that UV light kills off circulating microbial agents...

Asthma is not a disease, but just a name given to various symptoms, says The Lancet

8/28/2006 - (NaturalNews) The medical journal The Lancet is appealing to the medical community to stop using the term "asthma" as it misleads people to believe it is a disease rather than a group of symptoms with various origins and characteristics. Symptoms of...

Fish Oil Reduces Airway Inflammation Caused by Exercise-Induced Asthma (press release)

8/28/2006 - People suffering from exercise-induced asthma were able to reduce their symptoms below the threshold used to diagnose the disease by eating a diet supplemented with fish oil, according to new research findings from Indiana University reported in the...

Common asthma inhaler causing deaths, researchers assert (press release)

8/23/2006 - Three common asthma inhalers containing the drugs salmeterol or formoterol may be causing four out of five U.S. asthma-related deaths per year and should be taken off the market, researchers from Cornell and Stanford universities have concluded after...

Concentrated animal feeding operations near schools may pose asthma risk (press release)

8/23/2006 - Children who attend school near large-scale livestock farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) may be at a higher risk for asthma, according to a new study by University of Iowa researchers. The study,...

Obesity May Influence Response to Asthma Medications (press release)

8/22/2006 - As the nation’s collective waistline has swelled in recent decades, rates of asthma diagnoses also have accelerated. Indeed, much research has affirmed a link between the two conditions. But doctors also recognize that asthma may not behave the same...

Study on Participation of Pharmaceutical-Sponsored Clinical Trials (press release)

8/18/2006 - Physicians who participated in a pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trial involving asthma medications maintained adherence to treatment guidelines but were more likely to prescribe the sponsor’s drugs, according to a study in the June 21 issue of JAMA. Pharmaceutical...

Asthma risk increased in women with high levels of fat tissue inflammatory protein (press release)

8/16/2006 - Women with high levels of an inflammatory protein produced by fat tissue are at significantly increased risk of asthma, finds research in published ahead of print in Thorax. The findings are based on almost 6,000 adults taking part in the Third National...

Asthma attacks found to be caused by suppressed immune system

8/14/2006 - (NaturalNews) A study published in the journal Nature Medicine has found that asthma sufferers have low levels of an immune system protein that acts as the lungs' first defense against the cold viruses that can cause severe asthma attacks. Researchers...

Asthma Drugs May Boost Cataract Risk for Elderly (press release)

8/7/2006 - Elderly patients taking anti-asthmatic medications to treat their asthma or lung disease may be more likely to develop cataracts, a new study finds. A Canadian research team studied data compiled over 14 years from more than 100,000 patients with...

Asthma Inhaler Type Could Boost Death Risk (press release)

8/2/2006 - Adding to the ongoing controversy over a popular class of asthma inhaler medications, a new data review suggests the drugs may be dangerous. Compared to placebo, the "long-acting beta-agonist bronchodilator" inhalers (which include Serevent and Advair)...

Swimming pool chemicals promote asthma in children

7/18/2006 - (NaturalNews) Researchers in Europe have found that childhood asthma could be associated with exposure to chemicals in swimming pools. Researchers from the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels studied nearly 190,000 teenagers from 21 European...

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