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• Some schools use local farms for healthy menus
Health and nutrition experts agree, saying poor dietary habits are a contributing factor in dramatic increases in childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes, asthma and high cholesterol. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the number of ...
• When you are denied health insurance
It never crossed my mind to mention it on the form," Ruess says, noting that she'd been forthright about a more serious issue, her son's asthma, when she applied to another insurer for a policy for him. She'd correctly predicted that he would be ...
• Air pollution linkedto inherited mutations
These airborne particles are linked to a growing list of health problems, including asthma and heart disease, in the people who breathe high levels of them. But there had been little evidence that any air pollutant might cause the kind of genetic ...
• U.S. to launch landmark child health study
The National Children's Study will examine factors behind autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, birth defects, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, asthma, heart disease, obesity and other conditions, the U.S. government's ...
• Smog impact found to vary by gender, race
Ozone pollution can cause inflammation in the airways and exacerbate respiratory ills like asthma and emphysema or other chronic diseases like heart disease. Because the elderly are more likely to have pre-existing medical conditions, they are also ...