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HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF WITH OR WITHOUT AN H1N1 VACCINATION?
Vitamin C activates the immune system. It stimulates your immune system and helps your body fight infection. It helps protect you against various viral and bacterial infections including colds and flu. While Vitamin C is helpful during an infection, it is not a good idea to wait until infection hits. The best medicine is Prevention! To improve your immune system before you become exposed, get treated early.
Getting just one IV Vitamin C treatment per week can greatly boost your immune system.
Quantity, frequency and duration are the prevention and if infected, the key to a swift recovery. If you show signs of the illness, get into our office that day to get an IVC Infusion. Studies show that an infusion of Vitamin C can boost your immune cells within a few hours. If your symptoms are severe a second infusion should be administered the next day. We will try our best to work in anyone who is sick and in need of a Vitamin C treatment that day.
Late-night snackers are more likely to gain weight, research suggests.
A team from Northwestern University, Illinois, found that when you eat, not just how you eat, could make a big difference.
Scientists found that when mice ate at unusual hours, they put on twice as much weight, despite exercising and eating as much as others.
Tanning Beds and Skin Cancer
Tanning beds increase your odds of getting cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced in the new issue of the Lancet Oncology. Until now, the committee of experts who advise the World Health Organization had not confirmed a link between tanning beds, sunlamps, and cancer. The group made the decision after reviewing studies that showed teens and young adults who used tanning beds increased their risk of developing melanoma by 75 percent.
Rising Obesity Rates Increase Nation’s Healthcare Tab
Obesity-related illnesses now cost $147 billion each year, according to research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is hosting its first ever “Weight of the Nation” conference here.
Medical Conditions Driving Most Middle-Class Bankruptcies
THURSDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — In 2007, medical problems and expenses contributed to nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies in the United States, a jump of nearly 50 percent from 2001, new research has found.
Since the data used in the study were collected prior to the current economic downturn, it’s likely that the current rate of medical-related bankruptcies is even higher, said the researchers at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University.
Harris County, Houston get ‘F’ on air quality, survey says
Harris County received failing grades for both ozone pollution and particle pollution in the State of Air report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association.
The association’s research found that Harris County had an average of 53.7 unhealthy ozone days each year during a three-year period between 2005 to 2007, based on an 8-hour daily maximum concentration.
“Taking decisive action to clean our air must be a top public health priority,” Sara Dreiling, chief executive officer for the American Lung Association of the Central States, said in a statement. “Our failing grades for ozone and particle pollution mean that the health and lives of individuals in Houston are at risk. Now is the time to step up our response.”
Swine Flu - Recent Update
First swine flu death in U.S.: Sick 23-month-old baby dies in Texas
WHO raises pandemic alert to second-highest level
Texas Declares Flu Emergency, Suspends Competitions by Schools
The writing is on the wall and the general threat is real. Unfortunately we cannot stop the influx of the Swine Flu virus, but we can and should attempt to limit its spread. Multiple daily hand washings {once an hour, on the hour is what I tell my children}, minimize casual contacts {hand shaking, gym equipment…etc} and seek medical advice for symptoms such as a “Bad Cold”. High Dose Vitamin C or the X-Flu Protocol will help your immune system fight off and/or prevent the virus from infecting you.
G. F. Pearsall, Jr., M.D.
Swine Flu Pandemic Concerns?
GENEVA, April 25 (Reuters) - Outbreaks of swine flu in Mexico and the United States have the potential to cause a worldwide pandemic but it is too early to say whether they will, the head of the World Health Organisation said.
The new H1N1 flu strain — a nerver-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian flu viruses which has killed up to 68 people among 1,004 suspected cases in Mexico and infected eight in the United States — is still poorly understood and the situation is evolving quickly.
There is reason to be concerned because a vaccination does not yet exist and the infection could become a pandemic. The best advice to prepare for a possible Swine Flu outbreak is to make sure your immune system is strong. One of the ways to protect you from the associated illnesses of the Swine Flu is with good nutrition, nutritional supplementation and the use of intravenous (IV) therapy. Intravenous nutrition guarantees that critical vitamins and minerals can bypass barriers to absorption and penetrate deeply into cells to promote repair and efficient metabolism. Intravenous therapy creates “tissue saturation”, the ability to get the nutrients where we want them, directly in the circulation, where they can reach body tissues at a high dose, without loss. Intravenous Vitamin C activates your immune system and responses to infection. It helps prevent and fight various viral and bacterial infections including colds and flu.
Study Recommends Low-Fat Diets To Maintain Weight Loss
A new study suggests that Atkins-style diets may help people lose weight, but diets low in saturated fat are the recommended healthy choice once the pounds have been shed, Reuters reported.