Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Troyer was teaching in his Amish settlement's school in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1977 when his pupils began relaying orders ...

Amish children, primarily residing in rural farming communities across the United States, have been found to exhibit significantly lower rates of allergies and asthma compared to their counterparts in ...

LANCASTER, Pa.-- With simplicity as their credo, Amish farmers consume so little that some might consider them model environmental citizens. "We are supposed to be stewards of the land," said Matthew ...

The old-fashioned ways of the Amish are helping researchers make new discoveries about the origins of asthma. By studying the blood, genes and environmental dust of 30 Amish children from traditional ...

So far this year, LNP-LancasterOnline and other media have reported three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were children or teenagers, and all were buried in Amish cemeteries: Do reports like ...

Researchers studied the Amish community in Indiana and the Hutterites of South Dakota to figure out why asthma is uncommon among children belonging to the Amish community. The picture shows an Amish ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Louisiana is not known for having a large Amish population, Amish are present within the state, particularly in the southern ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from ...