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Holding the line: the telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish life [PDF]

Choice Reviews Online, 1997
Among the Old Order Mennonite and Amish communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the coming of the telephone posed a serious challenge to the longstanding traditions of work, worship, silence and visiting. In 1907, Mennonites crafted a compromise in order to avoid a church split and grudgingly allowed telephones for lay people while prohibiting ...
Claude S. Fischer, Diane Zimmerman Umble
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Research Note: The Growth of Old Order Mennonite Schools

The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities
Schools for horse-and buggy Old Order Mennonite students have shown steady growth in the United States and Canada. In 1966, there were 34 schools located in Pennsylvania and Ontario. At that time, the majority of them were one-teacher schools led by a female teacher with an average of 27.4 pupils per teacher.
Dewalt, Mark
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Maternal Perinatal Gut Microbiome Is Shaped by Traditional Farming Lifestyle and Associated With Early Childhood Atopic Disease. [PDF]

Allergy
We assessed whether the maternal perinatal gut microbiome and serum SCFA and cord blood SCFA differ between traditional farming and urban dyads. Women following a farming lifestyle had increased microbial diversity, several differentially abundant bacterial species and functional pathways, and increased circulating SCFA. Overall maternal gut microbiome
Davis EC, Jackson CM, Diaz NS, Susana J, Nelson A, Insel R, Seppo AE, Järvinen KM.   +7 more
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The External Exposome and Food Allergy: How Environmental Exposures Shape Disease Risk. [PDF]

Allergy
ABSTRACT IgE‐mediated food allergy is a global health issue with rising prevalence that cannot be explained by genetic change alone, strongly suggesting that environmental exposures are a key driver. The external exposome encompasses several exposures that influence the developing immune system and modify food allergy risk.
Smeekens JM, Brough HA, Järvinen KM, Troyer S, Kulis MD, Moran TP.   +5 more
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Antenatal diagnosis and maternal sirolimus treatment of polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, and symptomatic epilepsy (PMSE) syndrome. [PDF]

Pregnancy (Hoboken)
Abstract Background Polyhydramnios, megalencephaly, and symptomatic epilepsy (PMSE) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive mTORopathy caused by biallelic STE20‐related kinase adaptor alpha (STRADA) loss‐of‐function variants. Animal models demonstrate that in utero mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibition can prevent cortical dyslamination ...
Macedonia C, Carson VJ, Morton DH, Blakemore KJ, Evans MI, Crino PB.   +5 more
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Pathogenic Variants in Mennonites From Southern Brazil: Implications for Preventive Measures in Public Health. [PDF]

Clin Genet
In 325 exomes of South Brazilian Mennonites, we identified 23 pathogenic variants (P) and 27 likely P, with founder effects identified for 96% of P, whose frequencies differed from non‐Finnish Europeans, Amish, and Brazilian populations. ABSTRACT The Mennonite population has a unique history of 500 years of genetic isolation shaped by at least three ...
Mayer de Lima LB, Auer ED, Dall'Oglio Bucco I, Hoch VB, Dos Santos PI, Lopes FL, Shuldiner A, Júnior EL, Boldt ABW.   +8 more
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Physical health in a Canadian Old Order Mennonite community [PDF]

Rural and Remote Health, 2013
This article explores physical health and its determinants in two rural populations in Waterloo, Canada: Old Order Mennonites (OOMs) and non-OOM farmers. OOMs were selected because their distinct lifestyle might offer health benefits, and cultural homogeneity and isolation might more clearly expose the determinants shaping their health.
Kathryn A, Fisher, K B, Newbold, John D, Eyles, Susan J, Elliott   +3 more
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Examining Atopic Dermatitis Through the One Health Concept Lens. [PDF]

Allergy
ABSTRACT This paper explores the application of the One Health framework to atopic dermatitis (AD), a complex, chronic skin disease, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to prevention and management. One Health integrates human, animal, environmental, and plant health, addressing challenges such as antimicrobial resistance, infectious diseases, and
Minić-Pantić D, Abela B, Lehtimäki J, Zink A, Jensen-Jarolim E, Fettelschoss-Gabriel A, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Ring J, Schmid-Grendelmeir P, Prélaud P, Taïeb A.   +10 more
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Stoll, Amish and Old Order Mennonite Schools: A Concise History

The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities, 2022
No abstract available.
Lynn Miller, Gracia Miller
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Physical Activity Profile of Old Order Amish, Mennonite, and Contemporary Children [PDF]

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2010
This study explored the influence of modernity on the physical activity behaviors (e.g., intensity and timing) of children.Children aged 8-13 yr living a traditional lifestyle (Old Order Amish [OOA], n = 68; Old Order Mennonite [OOM], n = 120) were compared with children living a contemporary lifestyle (rural Saskatchewan [RSK], n = 132; urban ...
Dale W, Esliger, Mark S, Tremblay, Jennifer L, Copeland, Joel D, Barnes, Gertrude E, Huntington, David R, Bassett   +5 more
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