Asthma is very common among children, teens and adults. It is a disease that causes the airways of the lungs to tighten. An asthma attack is when your lungs aren t getting enough air to breathe. Your child might be having an asthma attack if he or she has: Trouble breathing Wheezing Coughing Chest pain Chest tightness What causes Asthma Attacks. Things that cause asthma attacks are called triggers. Triggers are everywhere. Any home can be full of triggers like mold, dust mites secondhand smoke, cockroaches, cats and dogs. So how can these triggers be controlled. The following are 7 tips on how to control triggers in your home to prevent asthma attacks Mold Mold grows on damp things such as shower curtains, bath items, tubs, basins and tiles. What you can do. If you see mold, clean it up...

We all have cholesterol whether we like it or not as it plays an important role in our bodies. However, having high cholesterol is not good and should be lowered. Regardless of how we get it, lowering high cholesterol is always a good idea. We get cholesterol in two ways, through our body and mainly the liver. Every day, our bodies produce amounts of cholesterol that we don t need. Animal foods like eggs, poultry, meat, seafood and milk contain a lot of cholesterol, which add to the levels we produce naturally. The safest foods are vegetables, seeds, nuts and fruits, as these do not encourage further production of cholesterol. Lowering cholesterol requires finding the right diet for you and sticking to it. The main source for cholesterol is saturated fatty acids. This makes your blood...

If you have ever experienced headaches, nausea, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, indigestion, or skin breakouts, you may be experiencing symptoms of a build up of toxins in your body. The fact is toxins are in the environment and there is nothing you can do to completely protect yourself from them. A body cleansing will help your body to get rid of any that have been trapped by the cells in your body, but you ll also want to take as many precautions against them that you can. Unfortunately, we get many of the toxins that get trapped in our body from the air we breathe. The air is filled with pollution from car exhaust, smog, paint fumes, and even cleaning products and perfumes. While we may enjoy the smell of a scented candle, it is contributing to the toxins you are breathing in. While you...

Pollsters and advertisers tell us that people will spend a fortune getting well, trying to cure or mitigate some disease or condition but will almost never spend a dime preventing disease. This is important when considering your immune system. Your immune system is your first line of defense against very powerful diseases in fact, against all diseases. Yet, few care about it until they need it. Translation: They are facing a debilitating disease for the first time and realize something is terribly wrong. Well what if you face a pandemic. That means you face a debilitating disease that has gone global and is infecting people through direct and easy person to person transmission. What about bird Flu . What about bird flu referred to as avian bird flu, Asian bird flu, h5n1 bird flu, among...