The old adage, ‘You are what you eat’, is still true but recently people are becoming aware of the sad fact that, health-wise, we are often better for what we don’t eat. By this I mean that it is sometimes possible to regain your health simply by not eating a particular food. When eating or [...]

No drugs associated with the treatment of asthma are addictive. However, some asthmatics develop an emotional dependency on their medication, particularly bronchodilators (puffers). Just because you are asthmatic, you should not medicate yourself whenever you become breathless. Breathlessness is not always asthma. Even a totally fit person becomes breathless after exertion. Wait a few moments [...]

THE TENDENCY TO develop asthma, together with other allergic conditions like eczema and hay fever, is inherited. However, the increasing prevalence of asthma in the past few decades reflects the adverse impact of industrialisation and changes in lifestyle. It is quite possible that in a greater proportion of children who inherit an allergic tendency it [...]

Астма представляет собой всемирную проблему, но в некоторых странах она представляет сложную и острую ситуацию: в США, Западной Европе, Великобритании астмой страдают 5-10% всего населения. Мировым эпицентром астмы является остров Тристан-да-Кунья в Южной Атлантике, где астмой болеет каждый третий житель. Высокая заболеваемость астмой на этом острове, объясняется близкородственными узами, поскольку трое из первых пятнадцати поселенцев [...]