The American Lung Association has created a swine flu page.
As long suspected, yoga appears to help asthma, but (and this is key) only in conjunction with – and not in lieu of – regular maintenance medications.
Finally, while obesity doesn’t appear to make asthma symptoms worse, it can affect the way the body reacts to asthma medications.
It’s interesting that there is now less media attention to swine flu when there are thousands of cases in the states but when there were dozens it was all over the front page everywhere.
As for the obesity not making asthma symptoms worse, that is the complete opposite of what my doctor told me a few years ago. I can’t wait for my checkup to see if he’s changed his mind as well.