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I'm still enjoying the Florida sunshine as I write because my trip back to Long Island was delayed. One of my large family, (of cats) had to have surgery, and he can't travel until at least Wednesday. I'll just sit here and suffer in the 70 degree weather.

A friend of mine coached girls basketball for many years, and over that time he had a small handfull of them suffer from what is called "sports" or "exercise induced" asthma. The vigorous exercise triggered an acute narrowing of the airways, making it very hard for them to breathe.

99% of the time this was alleviated by the use of an inhaler, and 30 minutes of inactivity. Then, the girl was good to go again. These girls were exceptions to the general rule, in that most kids with this problem opt not to participate in athletics, or anything strenuous. Inactivity is not a good habit to get into at any age, but this is what happens, and many misinformed parents push their kids in this direction, not wanting them to get hurt, or embarrassed.

My friend's team had a remarkable system for handling asthma. The affected girl would jump out of the game and her teammates would help with the inhaler while an assistant coach watched. Then the girl's breathing would get back to normal and everything would be fine.

Then the girl would get back in the game as if nothing had happened.

I've just seen a study showing that a low salt diet combined with pharmaceutical grade fish oil supplementation reduces the incidence of bronchoconstriction, or "sports" asthma.

In the study, done at the University of Indiana in 2006, the post-exercise lung function of participants, adults with mild to moderate persistant asthma, improved by about 64 per cent... and their use of emergency inhalers decreased by about 31 per cent, when they consumed a low salt diet, supplemented with pharmaceutical grade fish oil, for the period of the study.

A key finding in the study was that, while on the diet and fish oil supplementation, airway pro-inflammatory cells and markers were reduced. These are responsible for airway inflammation and airway obstruction.

So about that other key factor - salt. Where are kids getting it these days?

Doritos, potato chips, frozen pizza, hot dogs, and most microwavable food. Tons of salt.

If you're around kids much, then you already know they put this stuff away by the quart.

My advice...get rid of it. Start buying less of it, and start introducing the kids to good food. Everybody benefits.

And don't just get enteric coated pharmaceutical grade fish oil for yourself. Get it for the whole family. It's never too early to start everyone on the road to healthy living, and nobody is going to get a strong, healthy body by eating Fritos.

Enteric coated pharmaceutical grade fish oil plus exercise and good food will mean your chances of contracting this form of asthma may be slim indeed.

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Dr. Bill is an author and orthopaedic surgeon. He uses this enteric coated fish oil for its amazing health effects.

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