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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Obama has announced a new initiative to tackle climate change, in the name of helping people with asthma.
According to AP;
Warning of the perils to the planet has gotten the president only so far; polls consistently show the public is skeptical that the steps Obama has taken to curb pollution are worth the cost to the economy. So Obama is aiming to put a spotlight on ways that climate change will have real impacts on the body, like more asthma attacks, allergic reactions, heat-related deaths and injuries from extreme weather.
Obama said spending on health — such as preventing asthma — can save more money than it costs, as well as alleviate pain and suffering.
Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-presents-climate-change-hazard-health-072231769–politics.html
As an asthma sufferer, I’m personally disgusted that the President is seeking to exploit sympathy for my condition, to further his political climate agenda. Car exhaust and pollution can trigger an asthma attack – but by far the worst trigger for asthma attacks which I encountered was extreme cold. Heat waves cause deaths – but cold is far worse. Death rates soar in winter. The suggestion that milder winters in the future might be a public health threat is absurd.
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Well, there is pollen, temperature change and exercise induced that all can contribute to an acute attack of asthma so unless Obama can definitely link CO2 as the primary cause he’s talking out of his ###.
Nothing new with him doing that.
I guess breathing out of it makes him less susceptible to an an asthma attack.
Pres. B O always seems to be talking out of his Big Orifice
NObama16
Uh – Bryan – zero isn’t running in 2016.
Now…. hillary might be, if she can convince people to ignore the felonies she’s committed, but the real key is to get a decent candidate and stop letting the dems infiltrate the Republican nomination process.
“zero isn’t running in 2016.”
No need to run, declare marshal law.
Well my ATT news, that I get to put up with has Obama dragging out his daughter (I think it is Malia or something like that), and she is complaining that she is having trouble breathing. So there is nothing he won’t do to push his agenda.
Now I am a lifetime asthmatic, in fact I owe my whole career to that fact. Sans asthma, I would be a retired and rich New Zealand ex sheep farmer. I lost my Mother to chronic asthma, and just last year it also took my younger sister.
Now my asthma has actually been quite minimized since I have lived in the USA. There was a period during which I was quite sensitive apparently to the MTBE that the dear folks of the California Air Resources Board put ion our gasoline, but we fought and got rid of that worthless junk, and I don’t get that effect any more.
But so far absolutely nothing related to the climate in California, nor anywhere else I have lived in the USA, has in any way caused any effect on my asthmatic sensitivities. The whole thing is a total load of bovine scat.
One thing that could get my asthma set off is just thinking about all the supposedly intelligent American voters, who gave us this incompetent boob as a leader, and then voted again to keep him on the payroll.
As I recall, “Rev”. Jim Jones took about 1,000 persons with him on his exploit, but this one is likely to take 350 million and maybe more with this latest Iran thing, that I presume ersatz president Valerie Jarred cooked up.
And the same folks who gave us this mess are fixing to be a part of history again, and give us another Clinton to finish the job if this guy doesn’t.
Climate change has no appreciable effect on breathing difficulties. Air pollution of certain kinds might, but not CO2.
Clinton doesn’t look so bad when compared to the current lunatic/demagogue wannabe.
I had made a remark on FB the other day in relation to this same story. I pointed out that if what he was claiming was true that an asthmatic would certainly notice that issue whenever they went to sleep on a cold night and pulled the blankets over their head.
I am sorry to hear of your losses within your family. Especially when it takes one who should have had a longer life. My mother died from diabetes, and that was a lousy way to go towards the end. I am fortunate in that I have been blessed with a strong constitution. On my fathers side most of the males live into their 90s. That leaves me another 25+ years barring misfortune or unforeseen events. I have lived in California all of my life. I now live in the mountains up north, where the air is always fresh and the water sweet.
Good health to you and the rest of your family.
ps…i remember Jim Jones. I met him in the 1960s as I grew up in San Francisco.
I sure hope the president introduces a program to replace carpets with wood floors. I could use a subsidy for my planned remodeling effort.
@Paul
MARTIAL law
Yikes, thanks Don.
LUMBER LIQUIDATERS is giving away Chinese-made laminates–but you got to go to California to pick them up. Sorry I had to say that. sarc
Could it be that he is oblivious to the fact that there has been no warming for circa 18 years??
It’s not the warming, it’s the evil CO2 poisoning all of us. Someone should send him this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing
I used to suffer from asthma, but allergy tests were all negative. I could correlate my asthma attacks with the Santa Ana winds, which carry all sorts of particulate matter from the high desert down here to the coast. My doctor put me on Xolair shots twice a month – no attacks since. It is the “wonder drug”.
The problem is, when I was employed, it was costing me around $200 per month. Now I get to pay $1150 per month on Medicare, until I’m through the “doughnut” hole. Then it is about $50 per month.
I have no idea how much it costs on Obamacare.
Well that rabidly anti-ACA Senator Ted Cruz now likes it that he needs it:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/politics/ted-cruz-obamacare/
this is to BFL: actually listen and read what you linked to…. Senator Ted Cruz is only following the law not because he wants to use 0bummer care but because it is the law that US Senators use it, if they are not covered under another plan.
Cheers,
Joe
Hey BFL, Are you suggesting that Sen. Cruz should not have complied with the law? Are you claiming that Sen. Cruz actions were in any way unusual? Are you saying that the Congressional exemptions from Obamacare which were proposed by Harry Reid, et al, are preferred to the course taken By Sen. Cruz and others?
Hey, Joe Civis & ALAN ROBERTSON:
Oh the irony. You all be the ones that need to do more fact checking. It appears that Teddy is, even with an average net worth of 2.5 million and an average income of 1.2 million, just CHEAP:
In other words, members of Congress can do whatever they want, but the government is no longer offering the old Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) to members and their staff — only the exchange plans under Obamacare. And since the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is continuing to pay 72 percent of the premiums (the truth behind the so-called “Obamacare exemption for Congress”), the best value for members and especially staffers is to sign up for an Obamacare plan.
If Cruz doesn’t have to sign up for an Obamacare plan, what were Cruz’s other non-Obamacare options?
He could’ve immediately enrolled in COBRA, which would’ve allowed Cruz and his wife to keep their existing policy. He could’ve signed up for an Obamacare policy as an individual, like some members of Congress are doing to sidestep the so-called “illegal” premium sharing plan implemented by the OPM (continuing the policy of premium sharing from Congress’ previous health insurance program). Or he could’ve simply enrolled directly with an insurance provider in his state.
And what did Cruz choose instead of all of these alternatives? He chose his arch-nemesis: Obamacare. Why? Because none of the above options would’ve included the 72 percent premium sharing from the government. And the plans offers, probably one of the Gold-level plans is likely comparable to his wife’s Goldman Sachs plan. So, not only did Cruz basically endorse the Obamacare option, but he did so in part because of Obama’s allegedly impeachment-worthy decision to continue the premium sharing plan for Congress.
All told, this was almost a de facto endorsement of Obamacare. Ted Cruz, of all people, thinks Obamacare is the best deal for his family. The hypocrisy angle is almost a sideshow compared with this. Cruz filibustered Obamacare. He helped force a government shutdown over Obamacare. He’s lied dozens of times about Obamacare. And now he’s basically saying, “Hey, this Obamacare thing and the employer premium thing that I’m opposed to — really great deal!” So, again, for a rabid Obamacare enemy to pull off an inadvertent Nixon-to-China moment is a huge endorsement of the law.
On the other hand, it should also infuriate anyone who has an insurance policy due to or via Obamacare.
I’m personally just now reaching the contemptuous anger stage in my coverage of Ted Cruz this week, precisely because of this story. If Cruz makes it all the way to the White House (he won’t, but let’s — cough — imagine) one of the first things he’ll do is to repeal Obamacare, thus stripping me and 16+ million other Americans of our insurance policies. Repealing “every word” of the law also means repealing the part about pre-existing conditions, which would subsequently allow my insurance company to either dump me or to jack up my premiums beyond affordability.
Meanwhile, Cruz won’t have to worry about his current Obamacare plan once he’s president. Why? Because he’ll be covered by the other government-run health insurance program, FEHBP — the aforementioned Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. There’s something wickedly unfair about this scenario, not that it’ll ever happen but that he’d jump at the chance if he got it. It’s like blowing up a bridge just after he’s managed to make it across. Screw everyone still on the bridge.
You know what this is like? President Glenn Greenwald ordering a series of drone strikes. It’s like Ayn Rand receiving Social Security and — wait, never mind. She did. Someone said to me yesterday that I probably didn’t return any of the money I saved from the Bush tax cuts. Well, no, I didn’t. I also didn’t oppose the tax cuts for middle class earners (my income level at the time), going so far as to filibuster those cuts on the Senate floor and voting dozens of times to repeal them. It’s more than hypocrisy. It’s about the decision to sign up for something he’s all along claimed to hate, but now thinks is a pretty good deal — only after misleading millions of Americans into hating the bill and therefore electing more lawmakers who want to kill it.
http://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/the-good-the-bad-and-the-infuriating-aspects-of-ted-cruz-signing-up-for-obamacare/
http://www.davemanuel.com/pols/ted-cruz/
BFL, we get that you like stealing from others to subsidize your lifestyle. No, that’s OK, you earned it. Yes, Cruz could have gone on a COBRA. What happens after 18 months, BFL? I know counting is hard for socialists, so let me help you: it ends. So that’s not really a long term option, is it? And since he is forced to pay into Obamacare to subsidize you, that doesn’t make him a hypocrite when he uses it, just like Rand drawing social security after she was forced to pay into it. Remember, Team Blue is making you pay the price regardless.
Parasite.
They have linked certain foods to asthma attacks -wheat being one of the worst culprits. Maybe you should eliminate wheat from your diet and you wouldn’t have to buy the expensive wonder drug.
Re TskTsk:
There were other options besides COBRA (if you were paying attention), and at his income levels he could even self insure, that makes him the real parasite on the tax payer (such as you). But I’m glad that you support such rich upper income parasites and have obviously received the proper brainwashed respect for your chosen political fiends. As far as the amounts going to the handouts at the bottom, which the politicians love for everyone to concentrate on, those are pennies compared to the tax subsidies and CEO ripoffs such as the 2008 banking/hedge fund crises, much of which were caused by bad government practices (on both sides).
TskTsk:
Forgot to show Teddy’s previous tax subsidy with his wife’s Goldman’s Sachs coverage. The well to do get these while people such as I who do not have ACA coverage pay the full taxed amount:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/ted-cruz-health-care_n_4157938.html?1382642873
As with any family on employer-sponsored coverage, Heidi Nelson Cruz’s health insurance essentially functions as untaxed income. Rather than pay her an additional $20,000 in salary, Goldman compensates her just as much through her health plan, which the Cruz family won’t have to pay taxes on.
Assuming the Cruz family falls into the highest tax bracket — generally a safe assumption for a Goldman managing director — Kleinbard, like the economist Dean Baker, estimates that the $20,000 Goldman plan amounts to about $8,000 in taxes that the general public won’t see.
“Instead of getting compensation in cash and then shopping for insurance, they’re getting an $8,500 federal subsidy,” Kleinbard said. “If Goldman said, ‘Here’s cash, go buy your own policy,’ that would cost them $8,500 in federal taxes. By structuring it this way, Goldman has saved them $8,500.”
Why the President should not play doctor:
By Mayo Clinic Staff
It isn’t clear why some people get asthma and others don’t, but it’s probably due to a combination of environmental and genetic (inherited) factors.
Asthma triggers
Exposure to various substances that trigger allergies (allergens) and irritants can trigger signs and symptoms of asthma. Asthma triggers are different from person to person and can include:
•Airborne allergens, such as pollen, animal dander, mold, cockroaches and dust mites
•Respiratory infections, such as the common cold
•Physical activity (exercise-induced asthma)
•Cold air
•Air pollutants and irritants, such as smoke
•Certain medications, including beta blockers, aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and naproxen (Aleve)
•Strong emotions and stress
•Sulfites and preservatives added to some types of foods and beverages, including shrimp, dried fruit, processed potatoes, beer and wine
•Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a condition in which stomach acids back up into your throat
•Menstrual cycle in some women
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/asthma/basics/causes/con-20026992
CLIMATE FAIL
CO2 seems to be causing more tattoos, if that helps O’Mama’s cause.
let’s keep the Irish out of this.
And more piracy
Yeah and they banned efficient asthma inhalers because the CFC propellant (putatively) contributes to global warming/ozone hole.
They get ya coming and going.
In all due respect that’s not fully true. The inhaler in question is albuterol sulfate. They banned the freon that was used as a propellant for it. So the pharmaceutical companies had to develop a different propellant that contained no CFCs. To be honest, I think the freon was probably safer for the patient than the replacement. Anyway, despite the fact that only the propellant changed, and not the pharmaceutical (albuterol), the new inhaler required full FDA approval, and so it was no longer classified as a generic drug or sold at generic drug prices. I believe the increase in price went from about $17.00 for the generic up to about $50.00 for the now name branded drug. It’s pretty difficult to believe this was justified because thumb sized cannisters of propellant were going to destroy the planet as we know it. And while albuterol (now called albuterol HFA) is available as described the new regs did take Combivent inhalers off the market.
That’s not accurate either . They put Primatene Mist which is epinephrine out of business . Here’s the latest ( from ~ 2 years ago ) : http://www.primatene.com/doc/primatene-hfa-update-7-26-13.pdf .
I like many people laid in a supply before the ban went into effect . Here’s a relevant FaceBook group : https://www.facebook.com/BringBackPrimateneMist .
In Australia, a Salbutamol generic brand inhaler – 200 x 100 microgram doses, with a non – CFC repellent: A$14.14 Cost on the subsidised PBS: A$6.10
As we say down here: “someone’s having a lend of you, mate.”
asmanefrin is once again readily available at walmart or a pharmacy in the form of ampules at @ur momisugly 50 cents an ampule which provides several treatments.
you need to get a nebulizer to use it.
the one that they sell is badly engineered and underpowered and the company knows it but they are going on attrition, i.e., they will replace them as long as you’re willing to keep returning the failed on – every month is what you should expect.
instead, get a Mabis nebulizer – it requires more in the tank to function but it puts out like a fog machine at an alice cooper concert.
yes, primatene was the ONLY medication that worked in an emergency.
the effects are immediate- in seconds.
albuterol costs much much more and does not give immediate relief.
the epa legislation is deadly. who hired these hitmen?
One of the Senators with asthma confronted the EPA director about inhalers – can’t seem to find that video, but there is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088ZDSkcO1E
Oooops – Congressman, not Senator
Another video on the inhalers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOLe0PYXTpk
They will probably bring back CFCs in inhalers once the new propellants are no longer proprietary.
I suppose a case could be made that more CO2 causes more plant growth, which results in more pollen, which results in more asthma.
Okay … time to kill all the plants.
LOL…
That argument has already been made in a number of peer-reviewed science articles. The Church of Climate Change wants the masses to huddle in cold huts, heated with animal dung.
Oh wait, that indoor smoke is 100 times worse on asthma than clean affordable electricity and natural gas and well built homes.
@ur momisugly joel, But how can they have cow dung when the cows have nothing to eat? Because CC has decimated EVERYTHING, from glaciers (earlier article) to flooding farm lands and hurricanes, storms , no ice , too much ice, expanding polar ice and retreating polar ice, rising sea levels and lower sea levels, devastating blizzards, no blizzards, droughts ( that are happening as usual). I am getting really, really confused.( I think it is time to put on a Monthy Python rerun and have a glass of wine, ok maybe 2)
asybot:
The Prog-greens hate cows, didn’t you get that memo? Their methane flatulence is a potent GHG and by itself may represent 0.01º (+/- 0.005º) C/decade of global warming, Oh the horror!! So only cows that provide their milk for fine cheeses and other dairy delicacy products to the Progressive citizens of Elysium will be allowed to benefit from livestock husbandry.
@asybot Please resist using the name of that place on the other side of the river styx where reside the souls of the heroic and virtuous. The Greenies certainly don’t exhibit any of the clarity of thought exhibited by ancient Greeks
Having a father who smokes is also an indicator for asthma. Hmmmm
Day of the Triffids.
Must be true!
I get symptoms every time I’m exposed to this foolishness!!!
Cold is what triggers my asthma… If i believed in AGW I think i would be excited…
Ditto. I never really wheeze til I try to run in the cold. It also makes my heart skip beats more frequently.
Is it the cold or the dryness which comes from cold?
Hard to say; if it’s 25 with very high relative humidity, it can create problems as well.
Does this mean you can corelate asthma frequency with latitude and that suffers could avoid attacks by moving closer to the poles? As an infrequent asthma sufferer I’m wondering why no one has ever told me before.
I found two articles pertaining to asthma by latitude. The linkage they explore is between vitamin D deficiency at higher latitudes with an increased prevalence.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0018492
and
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494627
Frequency of attack can correlate with latitude, and works both ways. With two of our sons, we found they needed to be no more than 40° N or S in summer. Less in winter, maybe 25°. So they stay in the tropics.
An easy, quick way to sanity check that central claim that [warming] climate change increases the risk of asthma is to simply look at the asthma rates in this country and compare them by state. If the president’s [claim] is true, hotter climates would have [higher] asthma rates.
Let’s look at the data here: http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/stateprofiles.htm
In fact, if you look at the quick totals using the “by sex” graph, you find that southern states are [consistently] a few percentage points lower than norther states. This even holds true for Califormia, with ithttps://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=all#comments-forms higher [pollution] and dust, compared to Washington State, despite the latter’s moister [environment] and better air quality. California has the lower rates of the two.
Now is this significant? I looked at all the southern and norther [states] on that map and it holds that southern has less asthma, so maybe. But actually status on the data would have to be done, and then compare warm countries to cold countries, or warm south States against even warmer on average south States to see how robust the trend of warmth=less asthma is.
By what mechanism would colder states cause higher asthma? More time a plenty indoors would be a clear potential cause.
So yes, the data I can find forms Not support a the president on the claim a warmer environment leads to more asthma. Rather, increased indoor time with the increase in computer based indoor activities is a much clearer potential culprit that rises over the same period of time.
Dang phone fighting me in trying to fix the autocorrect errors. Sorry for them all!
I’m thinking we don’t have a president…
…we have a princess and a pea
no, he’s just an ass-clown.
+1e+6
I 2nd Paul’s comment!!
My Mom and Fiance are asthmatics and as you said, their worst triggers have always been (and likely always will be) cold.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/11/malia_obama_peanut_allergy_epipen_bill_for_schools_and_asthma.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
I just found this article h/t to JunkScience.com that points out that Malia’s “Asthma attack” was induced by a peanut allergy while they were at a circus…
And it’s a well known fact that Elephants like peanuts and Elephants are the symbol of the Republicans and everyone knows the Republicans are Climate Change Deniers in the pay of Big Oil who behave in exactly the same way as the Tobacco companies who tried to deny that cigarette smoking was bad for you and can induce asthma attacks in your children and … look, over there – an endangered butterfly …
[I’m actually a little concerned that my stream of consciousness/word association (football) was that coherent. :)]
I think living in a city or larger metropolitan area has been proven to raise asthma risk. Based on this, I would expect higher asthma rates since less people are living outside cities and larger metropolitan areas regardless of climate.
Obama is playing [sucking] up to Stockholm again to position himself for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Demonstrating that all human disease is caused by Global Human Warming will surly cap Obama’s Titanic Career.
The UN will happily use the ‘Obama Genus Analysis’ to devise a program requiring the culling of all human life on Planet earth to ZERO [the Zero Game as they like to call it] … Of course Gen. Bon Ki Moon and a sufficient number of Korean (i.e. Korean-Japanese because there no longer exists indigenous Koreans on the peninsula following the invasion of Japan Army forces following the signing the Treaty of Portsmouth) prostitutes will be … exempted [Ha ha] … shall we say.
To Obama and Bon Ki Moon … Champaign Wishes and Caviar Dreams!
Ha ha
Is Obama suffering from Stockholm syndrome do you think?
masInt branch 4 C3I in is
April 7, 2015 at 7:53 pm
“Obama is playing [sucking] up to Stockholm again to position himself for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.”
The guy who gave him his peace prize has been demoted from director to ordinary member. Peace price comittee trying to reform itself to something credible. In vain.
They could at least have fired him. Too little, too late.
‘As an asthma sufferer, I’m personally disgusted that the President is seeking to exploit sympathy for my condition, to further his political climate agenda. … but by far the worst trigger for asthma attacks which I encountered was extreme cold. Heat waves cause deaths – but cold is far worse.’
You got it. I don’t have asthma but I have COPD which has characteristics similar to asthma, and for which some of the medications are the same. I couldn’t agree more. And the (expletive deleted) President isn’t merely engaged in a disgusting practice of exploiting another’s illness to further his ‘political’ (scare quotes necessary) climate agenda. He’s doing so with no more than a flea’s knowledge of the illness. You’re right, cold air is deadly. A direct walk into frigid wind can actually be terrifying. I try to avoid it, and in the past when I couldn’t I used to down a couple shots of vodka – seriously. Now I take Lorazepam.
And as far as heat waves causing deaths? Quite true, but only if air conditioning is unavailable. How dare that narrow minded, narcissist in the White House seeks to raise our electrical rates and make life sustaining AC unaffordable. How dare he flaps his jaw about diseases he knows nothing about.
Has he ever shown knowledge in anything worthwhile or honest?
There is only one way this could happen. More flora biomass. Which is a good thing. And in fact there is more biomass due to the healthier atmosphere. However asthma remains steady, associated with immune disorders caused by early propholactic care that fails to expose young bodies to adverse elements. Because the biomass is in areas the young asthmatics are not.
Pat, I have not heard that cause for asthma. Do you have sources for replicated studies?
I watched the President make the announcement and just about every “fact” coming out of his mouth was a lie, from temperatures still rising to increasing storms. Absolutely disgusting.
Leave it to Obama to leave out the poor people with climate change induced turrets with narcolepsy
Prof. Tribe makes legal case against Obama’s/EPA’s Climate Change legislation
Laurence Tribe Fights Climate Case Against Star Pupil From Harvard, President Obama
At a House hearing last month, Mr. Tribe likened the climate change policies of Mr. Obama to “burning the Constitution.”
Unfortunately, Tribe is still just a lawyer representing clients who pay him to be an advocate for whatever.
I think most modestly intelligent lawyers realize Obama has been “burning the constitution” since he started re-writing black and white letter ObamaCare law by regulation and fiat. The Supreme Court will hopefully tell the American People this two-bit dictator has no clothes. Then it will be interesting to see what this Most-petulant of Presidents does next. My guess is he will be true to form, and throw Article III on his Progressive bonfire, since Article II has already been burned.
Obama has many more tricks up his sleeve. Look up Operation Jade Helm and try to figure that out in any logical way.
Yes, I know about Jade Helm. I spent 5 years in Air Force Spec Ops in the 90’s. Most Green Berets I ever met were fine american citizens, far more grounded in America than the political class. I suspect even they do not know what it is they are really being asked to do. My family has lived and some still do live extensively around some of those communities in West and Central Texas mentioned in the press release.
Best not to dismiss the foremost constitutional lawyer and professor with key constitutional insights as “just a lawyer”. Furthermore, we still have courts (mostly) upholding the rule of law and not man. See Judge Refuses to Allow Obama’s Immigration Actions to Proceed
Personally I can’t see why the EPA is so anxious to let this matter proceed in court,as it appears that they don’t have a case to stand on,apart from some technicality that anyone can see,was not intended to be used at all. The U.S Supreme court has ruled against them before when they have attempted to do similar things. The first thing I’d request is a injunction of the implementation of the Clean Air Act until this matter has gone before the courts.
Desperate and more desperate. Keep ’em coming because people are realizing what they are trying to do and becoming more skeptical with every “factoid”. Just remember to vote.
There won’t be an election King Obe has a deal with Putin to attack us and declare marshal law lol just sayin.
One has to understand that Obama shares a special bond with climate scientists. Everything they say turns out not to be true too.
ok
that was good
Asthma is an autoimmune issue caused by chronic, low level inflammation of the lungs. Pollen, pollution and temperature may exacerbate asthma but this inflammation is most likely caused by chronically elevated blood sugar or proteins your body isn’t adapted to handle getting through the walls of your intestines and into the bloodstream (a condition called leaky gut). At the risk of sounding like a nut you can cure or dramatically ease your symptoms by eliminating wheat and sugar from your diet, it worked for me. I haven’t had an attack ever since I altered my diet 5 years ago. Better still is that making this change will reduce your body fat, reduce inflammation throughout your body and you’ll enjoy better overall health.
Corticosteroids inhalers actually have the effect of raising blood sugar, which is why people gain weight and have their asthma become increasingly worse when put on these medications. It was the weight gain I experienced after being prescribed for an inhaler by my (former) doctor that made me look at other options for treating my own exercise-induced asthma. A low carb diet made a lot od sense once I set aside my preconceived notions. I’ve mentioned this before but the parallels between climatology and health/nutritional science is eerie, it would make a great article to go over the similarities. The upshot is that the conventional wisdom on health is just as bad as the conventional wisdom on global warming – most people believe a lie. If you’re interested in health or suffer from chronic disease like CAD, diabetes or cancer, I urge you to look into elevated blood sugar and low carb diets before you allow your doctor to put you on an expensive drug regimen.
Bob,
I eat a lot of wheat, always have. I don’t have asthma, never have.
I always assumed the wheat was preventing asthma! 🙂
Mebbe is would hazard to guess you are type A or B or AB blood group (non-O).
Some people who smoke don’t get lung cancer, would you consider that to mean that smoking is healthy?
Congrats on your ability to eat lots of wheat and stay healthy… so far. Hopefully that lasts for you. However, a lot of people have relief for conditions like diabetes, heart disease, asthma, etc. when they drop wheat and sugar from their diet.
Your genetics play a strong role in asthma. Based on your helpful diet, I would hazard to guess you are type-O blood group. Many childhood onset asthma cases are related to eosinophilia in the airways. Early early childhood pathogens (and lack of gram-neg bacteria exposure) and lack of worm parasite exposures are strongly linked to subsequent development. A “bored” immune system in a child is a dangerous immune system. Just like a child’s brain, the immune system is plastic — learning, adapting, editing, shifting to stimuli. Improper memories can last a lifetime, both neural and immunity.
I may be skeptic on the CO2 linkage to global warming, but I am certainly grounded in the science of ground-based air and environmental pollutants that are strong players in the rise of asthma cases in the Developed countries.
For adult exercise-induced asthma, diet, exercise, and lack of exposure to “normal” pathogens during childhood all play a complex role in a complex multifactorial disease. Exercise-induced asthma is dysfunctional response probably to the stress-induced metabolites and hormones that combine to drive a TH2-type immune response. Exercise in urban areas with ground pollution may be causal in some persons. For centuries, where city life was associated with soot from fires and stoves, and smells we can’t imagine in the West today, the notion to get to the mountains or warm deserts was a strong belief founded in some level of anecdotal evidence.
In modern life, breathing elevated ozone (a strong oxidizing agent) induces micro tissue airway damage, initiating the inflammatory process with invading neutrophils into damaged tissue. Stopping ozone damage early is important. But ozone is likely not the only environmental oxidant that damages airways. Caustic VOCs, living with high levels of dust mite feces, are also known initiators of dysfunctional airway inflammation that can initiate asthma attack onset.
Certainly a plant-based diet later in life (post 50 yrs old) that is high in natural fiber and healthy Omega 3 oils is far better than a high carb, high animal fat diet. But even with that, some people living in suburban or urban environments that still suffer from asthma should strongly consider a change of scenary to rural, even ocean environments where salt ions and humidity can help maintain airway barrier function while minimizing exposure to pollutants like ozone and soot.
A good post I think, except perhaps this..
.”I may be skeptic on the CO2 linkage to global warming, but I am certainly grounded in the science of ground-based air and environmental pollutants that are strong players in the rise of asthma cases in the Developed countries.”
is lacking the affirmation that CO2, once again, is not a particulate, and not causative of asthma in any study I know of. The idea of increased asthma due to greater weeds, pollens, and particulates is short sighted in the extreme. As you noted there are many disparate triggers for asthma. As a child driving by the alfalfa fields at harvest felt like it would kill me.
Cheep inexpensive energy is the life blood of EVERY economy. Thus control of particulates is not difficult, and control of pollen and weeds is certainly relatively simple in cities not impoverished.
Joel wrote – “I may be skeptic on the CO2 linkage to global warming, but I am certainly grounded in the science of ground-based air and environmental pollutants that are strong players in the rise of asthma cases in the Developed countries.
The problem is that studies like these are all observational in nature and can only suggest a correlation and not imply true cause and effect. Science and public policy is a farce due to people confusing correlation for true cause and effect.
Like yourself, I changed my diet away from junk food to a far healthier intake, but I still can suffer cold induced episodes. I find whole wheat to be just fine with me.
Chad – if you’re still eating wheat and other grains our diets probably aren’t comparable. Drop the wheat for awhile and see what happens to your cold-induced episodes.
Bob, asthma and food allergies are two different things. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease caused by particulates, cold air, and exercise. Asthma has nothing to do with blood sugar or proteins in the blood. The inflammation is clearly linked to those three things. The only correlation between food allergies and asthma is that asthmatic are more likely to be sensitive or allergic to sulfites.
“Science and public policy is a farce due to people confusing correlation for true cause and effect.” Says the guy contributing wheat and sugar to asthma .
In 70s under PL-480 supplied Mexican wheat and this was unloaded in Mumbai. This wheat carried with it a weed known “perthanium” [locally called as Congressgrass] created Asthma in Pune area with this weed spreading all open areas. Now it occupied almost all over India increasing the pollen based allergy lead Asthma [Bronchitis]. It wont kill but lifelong people have to live on medicine. The other types of Asthma are caused by air pollution not by carbon dioxide or temperature. As asthma effect more under winter conditions.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
That statement makes it sound like Obama thinks CO2 really is a pollutant, that CO2 in the air is a direct cause of health issues like asthma.
Remember this man’s science IQ is barely above Joe Biden’s. Obama still reportedly occasionally smokes too when he is stressed. He is at high risk for throat-laryngeal tumors. I have no doubt his excellent doctors have told him this. Yet he still smokes. But he wants us to cut our CO2 emissions, while he takes a 747 around the USA several times a month for partisan political fundraisers, by a man who will never face another election again in his life. Hypocrisy in a Progressive knows no bounds.
Yes, Louis, the intent is to ensure that the public believes CO2 is a pollutant.
It’s all pretty tragic.
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kim – the public has been led to believe that ‘carbon’ is a pollutant, inferring that ‘carbon’ is a particulate. This labelling then leads to the asthma false assertion.
My asthma has gotten better… Does that mean no climate change???
It means your immune system is getting healthier. That is good thing all around as tumor control later in life is key function of an immune system.
Actually it means his immune system has stopped attacking his own lung tissue.
There is far too much conflation between “global warming” and assertions about local effects in America.
According to the USCRN, the continental US is in a steep, decade-long cooling trend. How can “global warming” be causing more asthma in America when America isn’t warming?
It is not about science. It is not about rational consideration of facts and data.
For all the untold millions of dollars spent on recording and adjusting and reporting global temperature data sets, they all (BEST< GISS< NCDC< UKMO/CRU) might as well just turn it all over to a random number generator feeding an algorithm and all head to beach and enjoy life for all the worth their work actually is necessary at this juncture to The Cause.
At this point, it is about controlling the political narrative with sound bites and alarmist rhetoric fed by a complicit media to a largely naive and science illiterate populace.
“Hash-Tag Science” = where people that barely passed their minimum required courses in High School go to convince themselves they are “Scientific” while all of the “Skeptics” are Luddites and Fundies. I really hate the FB page, “I F@ur momisugly(king Love Science” since it has very little Science on it; only hordes self-satisfied lunkheads that think they know something because the “Liked” the picture of cumulonimbus clouds.
No worries, he’ll buy us all free breathalyzers
and we’ll be as good as new!
White House and EPA cause asthma. Look up how they banned Primatene Mist (the ONLY over-the-counter medicine that can stop anaphylaxis dead in its tracks), all because those tiny little bottles contained CFCs.
I don’t think anybody could rationally argue that the minuscule amount of CFC in Primatene would harm the atmosphere or climate in any way. Even knowing how CFCs are purported to work on ozone, that’s just ridiculous.
And yet… I would be willing to bet “dollars to doughnuts”, as they say, that with that rule, the Obama administration and EPA have killed quite a few asthmatics in the U.S.
Someone I know very nearly died — no exaggeration — because prescription medicine was not available, Primatene had been taken off the shelves, so he had none, and the phone wasn’t working to call an ambulance. By the time he finally got to a hospital, the asthma had progressed so far that even after epinephrine and nebulizer treatments, his blood O2 kept dropping below 70. He very nearly didn’t make it.