Posts Tagged ‘asthma’

Asthma is serious, but there are home remedies you can try to reduce the severity and frequency of your attacks, and to help manage, or even reverse your symptoms when they happen.

Practitioners of alternative medicine have been using herbs to treat asthma for centuries. Pycnogenol is a standardized extract from French maritime pine bark that is a powerful antioxidant, and has been shown to improve lung function and decrease the need for asthma medications. Get the dosage here.…

At what cost are you keeping your home smelling fresh? According to scientists at Emory University and Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Clinic, it’s a hefty cost. But the cost is not necessarily financial. Scientists have found that scented candles and air fresheners are wreaking havoc on our bodies, contributing to a host of ailments from headaches, high pulse rate, asthma and nausea; to mention a few.

The source of your headache may not the long hours in …

This article continues our 15-part article series called Heal Yourself in 15 Days. In part one, we looked at why the real secret to rapid healing is to remove the barriers to healing (http://www.bartonpublishing.com/blog/heal-yourself-in-15-days-part-one/). In part two, we look at why your healing process is so powerful that you can’t even turn it off – not even for high blood pressure or asthma!

When you scrape your elbow, a bit of blood oozes out to clean the wound …

By Bob Condor

Whether you call it sweat or the more proper, “perspiration,” it appears getting a bit clammy while working out protects against exercise-induced asthma attacks.

A new study by scientists at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego evaluated 56 otherwise healthy Marines who were challenged with such symptoms as wheezing, coughing or breathlessness during high-exertion spurts of physical activity. Those Marines who sweated more suffered fewer systems.

That’s the kind of opposites attraction you are looking for …

By Bob Condor

The Mediterranean diet has been long praised as heart-healthy, even with its fat content from olive oil, fish and nuts. Those omega-3 fats, of course, are healthy and far from the artery-clogging nature of saturated fats and trans fats. Another plus of the Mediterranean diet: Lots of antioxidants from fruits and vegetables.

A new study broadens the health value of those omega-3 fats and antioxidants, along with the fresh produce and whole grains—and don’t forget the feta—that …