Consumption of red wine, grapes could help reduce asthma says study

Components of red wines have been pegged as beneficial by quite a few studies and joining the list is a new study published in journal Scientific Reports which suggests that consumption of red wine and grapes could help reduce inflammatory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) and middle ear infection (otitis media).
The component that helps reduce inflammatory diseases is resveratrol, which is found naturally in some plant foods such as grapes.....

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What You Need to Know About Exercise-Induced Asthma

Although exercise is one of the best things you can do for your body, if you have exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (or EIB), it can be difficult to work out without triggering asthma symptoms like shortness of breath and coughing—but it’s not impossible.
It comes as a surprise to many people, but exercise is one of the biggest triggers of asthma attacks. In fact, up to 90% of people who have asthma experience exercise-induced asthma during or after a workout.....

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Fathers’ smoking may up asthma-risk in kids

Men who indulge in smoking since their adolescence may put their future children at more than three times higher risk of an early-onset of asthma, a finding suggests.
In the study, the researchers included more than 24,000 children and showed that both a father's early smoking debut and a father's longer smoking duration before conception increased non-allergic early-onset asthma in kids.....

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