ADVISORY/Study Links Asthma and Obesity.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2001 TOPIC: A recent study claims to have found a link between asthma and being overweight. CNN reports that asthma sufferers allegedly are also more likely to suffer from ulcers, hypertension and depression, according to the study of 1,130 Americans between the ages of aged 17 to 96. Experts in the story said that the link could mean that adults who lose weight, may help ease their asthma symptoms. However, the study did not conclusively prove whether added weight caused the asthma or vice versa, the story said. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dr. Michael Schatz of Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization, based in Oakland, California, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield. has published more than 100 articles on a wide variety of asthma and allergy topics, with an emphasis on the course and management of these conditions during pregnancy. PR: Laura Marshall, Media Relations Consultant Laura.h.marshall@kp.org Dr. Sherri Tennpenny is founder and director of OsteoMed II. She is an expert on alternative medicine and natural health, including integrative medicine integrative medicine combines conventional medicine with complementary and alternative therapies. integrative medicine The 'new medicine' A term for the incorporation of alternative therapies into mainstream medical practice. and allergies and asthma. She has been featured on TV as expert on BioSET & NAET NAET Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique , alternative pain therapies, including acupuncture acupuncture (ăk`y  pŭng'chər), technique of traditional Chinese medicine, in which a number of very fine metal needles are inserted into the skin at specially designated points. and neural therapy Neural Therapy is a system to diagnose and treat medical problems of patients which are otherwise difficult to treat or resistent to treatment.Neural therapy (in German: "Neuraltherapie") can be traced back to the German physicians Ferdinand and Walter Huneke , who at first . PR: Denise L. Brady; Betsy M. Muller, 440/572-1136; osteomed2@aol.com Dr. John La Puma John La Puma is an Italian-American internist, professionally trained cook, and author. La Puma was born in New York, received his undergraduate degree from the College of Creative Studies in 1978, earned an MD from Baylor College of Medicine and trained in internal medicine was the first physician in the country to enter a postgraduate fellowship in medical ethics medical ethics The moral construct focused on the medical issues of individual Pts and medical practitioners. See Baby Doe, Brouphy, Conran, Jefferson, Kevorkian, Quinlan, Roe v Wade, Webster decision. and internal medicine, at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma was also the first physician in the country to graduate from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago. Dr. La Puma has been a national spokesperson for the D.A.S.H. (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or the DASH diet is a diet promoted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (part of the NIH) to control hypertension. ) Eating Plan. He has written three scholarly books in medical ethics, edited three others in alternative medicine, and authored over 250 articles, published in scientific, culinary and popular journals and newspapers. 312/642-1553 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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