AKRON -- At the spot where the past meets the present in the trend to eat locally grown and organically produced food, Ohio's Amish have parked their buggies. More than 110 Amish farmers, many from ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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 ...

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 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 ...

The Amish have been living a version of self-sufficiency that most people only dream about. Without depending on modern ...

SPARTANSBURG, Pa. — At first glance, Allen Troyer is typical of the Amish: living simply, traveling by horse and buggy and likely to have his sons follow him into the family business. Except, as is ...

Old MacStolzfus had a farm — and maybe a cure for asthma. Amish children who’ve grown up exposed to barnyard germs have much lower rates of asthma than kids raised in more sterilized environments, ...

The old-fashioned ways of the Amish are helping researchers make new discoveries about the origins of asthma. By studying the blood, genes and environmental dust of 30 Amish children from traditional ...

Lancaster, Pa., is changing as only about a third of the fast-growing religious group there still farm. Most Amish heads of household work in... As Amish Leave Farming For Other Work, Some Leave Their ...

Over the past couple of years, Strasburg Township's zoning office in Pennsylvania found itself fielding more and more requests from Amish to house horses on residential lots. Most Amish in Lancaster ...