Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new ...

LANCASTER (AP) – After years of resistance, a growing number of Amish families are putting their farms into land-preservation programs. Amish farmers traditionally spurn government programs. But ...

So far this year, LNP-LancasterOnline and other media have reported three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were children or teenagers, and all were buried in Amish cemeteries: Do reports like ...

People in Amish country prepare a horse team to work on a farm in Pulaski, Pa., Wednesday, June 23, 2021. In 2023, LNP | LancasterOnline reported on three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were ...

In trying to explain America’s rising rates of allergies and asthma, one of the common theories is that we’re just too clean. And that theory just got a boost by scientists studying traditional ...

In the Aug. 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers showed that substances in the house dust from Amish, but not Hutterite, homes were able to engage and shape the innate ...

LANCASTER, Pa.-- With simplicity as their credo, Amish farmers consume so little that some might consider them model environmental citizens. "We are supposed to be stewards of the land," said Matthew ...

Amos and Elizabeth Lapp, an older Amish couple looking to move off the farm, eyed a cozy, two-bedroom house for sale. It was in the middle of a quiet street of little houses close to New Holland. “We ...

MIAMI — Children who grow up on traditional Amish farms in the United States are largely protected from asthma because their immune systems are bolstered by close contact with farm animals’ microbes, ...

Amish families go down a road in Lancaster, Pa., one on foot and the other by horse-drawn carriage. The high cost of farmland is driving some Amish people to move to where land is more affordable.

In a world overflowing with serums, devices, prescriptions, and skincare fads, it’s easy to forget that healthy skin existed ...