How to IGNORE HYPE and STAY HEALTHY!
Common Sense-Based Health Tips that Work… with no Side Effects!
This is not so much an article as a compendium of information I have
gathered over the last months as the media hype over swine flu rips
through our collective psyche. I have boiled the best of the best into this
format so you can whip out a piece of paper, jot these down and get to
work now on using common-sense practices to stay healthy today and
tomorrow during the next (name an animal we farm)-flu outbreak,
pandemic, epidemic of fear-based dis-ease marketing.
1. Turn the channel every time anyone talks about the swine flu, say “I’m too healthy and strong to get it” and don’t stress.
2. Remember that the ‘common’ flu is just as if not more lethal than the swine flu!
3. Wash your hands and don’t touch your face… as much for the flu as for your skin health and beauty!
4. Gargle twice daily with warm salt water.
• Don’t give ‘stuff’ you don’t want a nice place to live and don’t burden your immune system!
5. Use a Neti Pot to clean out your nasal passages.
• We live in a polluted environment and likely have chronically inflamed nasal passages.
6. Floss.
• See above, don’t let the ‘visitors’ hang out.
7. Drink warm liquids.
• Flush those bacteria or other visitors into your stomach and let the acid destroy what’s left.
8. Crank up your immune system with vitamin C and Zinc.
• Dr. Vinay Goyal suggests much of the above along with C.
9. Feed your healthy bacteria… listen to your Naturopathic Doctors!
• Garlic, Onion, Leeks, along with good probiotics will help your body stay on top of the fight!
10. STAY FIT!!!!
• Healthy people have a much better immune and stress response so use resistance and cardio exercise wisely to simulate your body not exhaust it!
Two final notes: Have your vitamin D levels checked as they are an excellent indicator of immune and inflammatory health and have a “Flu Buddy” so you can be sure someone will take care of business and life if you do need a day of rest!!
Choose to use that good old common-sense stuff and ignore the hype... and keep your back straight!
Scott