The Second Highest Prevalence of Celiac Disease Worldwide: Genetic and Metabolic Insights in Southern Brazilian Mennonites. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2023 Celiac disease (CD), despite its high morbidity, is an often-underdiagnosed autoimmune enteropathy. Using a modified version of the Brazilian questionnaire of the 2013 National Health Survey, we interviewed 604 Mennonites of Frisian/Flemish origin that ...
Oliveira LC +10 more
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Closed but Not Protected: Excess Deaths Among the Amish and Mennonites During the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2021 “Excess deaths” is a means to estimate the lethality of COVID-19 (directly and indirectly). Assessing “excess death” in closed religious communities provides information on how COVID-19 impacted these communities. We use obituary information published in
Stein RE +4 more
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Biomarkers of Development of Immunity and Allergic Diseases in Farming and Non-farming Lifestyle Infants: Design, Methods and 1 Year Outcomes in the "Zooming in to Old Order Mennonites" Birth Cohort Study. [PDF]
Front Pediatr, 2022 Traditional farming lifestyle has been shown to be protective against asthma and allergic diseases. The individual factors that appear to be associated with this “farm-life effect” include consumption of unpasteurized farm milk and exposure to farm ...
Järvinen KM +14 more
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Журнал Фронтирных Исследований, 2023 This article delves into the history of a group of Mennonites who migrated from Russia to Turkestan in the late 1870s. Utilizing a wide range of archival sources, publications, and oral history, the author analyzes the reasons for the Mennonites ...
Dilaram M. Inoyatova
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Infant gut microbiome is enriched with Bifidobacterium longum ssp. infantis in Old Order Mennonites with traditional farming lifestyle. [PDF]
Allergy, 2021 Growing up on traditional, single‐family farms is associated with protection against asthma in school age, but the mechanisms against early manifestations of atopic disease are largely unknown.
Seppo AE +14 more
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Forest Teams as an Alternative Service of the Mennonites in the Russian Empire Until 1914
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. In the Russian Empire, the Mennonites, like German colonists, had numerous privileges, including they were not drafted for military service. This privilege was abolished after the Edict of 1874 was issued.
Ol’ga V. Erokhina
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The Plain Mennonite Face of the World War One Conscientious Objector [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 World War One was a difficult time for American Mennonites. conscription revealed profound differences between progressive Mennonites such as those from the General Conference and plain Mennonites such as those from the Mennonite Church.
Donald Eberle
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Religions, 2021 Religious beliefs, practices, and social support facilitate coping with psychologically distressful events and circumstances. However, COVID-19 and governmental mandates for social distancing and isolation make in-person communal forms of religious ...
Bernard D. DiGregorio +3 more
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The Pure Church Movement [PDF]
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2018 The “Pure Church Movement” is introduced as a plain Anabaptist revival that unfolded in American, Canadian, and Latin American Swiss Mennonite, Russian Mennonite, and Amish churches over the course of the 20th century. It was an intentional return to the
Peter Hoover
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Genomic continuity of Argentinean Mennonites. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 Mennonites are Anabaptist communities that originated in Central Europe about 500 years ago. They initially migrated to different European countries, and in the early 18th century they established their first communities in North America, from where they
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