The Medical Freedom Channel

“As an epidemic of asthma left more and more children wheezing during the past two decades, scientists blamed everything from obesity to cockroach droppings to the way we build our houses. Now, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have identified another potential cause: child abuse. The Brigham doctors discovered that children in Puerto Rico who endure physical or sexual abuse are twice as likely to suffer from asthma as youngsters than those who do not face maltreatment. Abuse, the researchers found, was a more powerful predictor of whether a child would develop asthma than if a family was rich or poor. Stress has recently been implicated as a trigger for asthma.” [editor’s note: This is surface-research; they’d be well aadvised to study how parents create “stress” on their offspring … without ever lifting a hand in “discipline”! - SAT] (09/02/08)