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Influenza Fact and Fiction
With cold and flu season quickly approaching, here is a helpful fact and fiction on the Flu virus. 1. The seasonal flu is annoying but harmless. FALSE – the flu is anything but harmless. According to WebMD, the seasonal flu hospitalizes 200,000 people in the United States every year. Of those, it kills about 36,000. For comparison, that is close to the number of women killed by breast cancer each year, and more than twice the number … Read entire article »
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Healthy Habits That Prevent Cold and Flu Viruses
As your infants grow up, and grow past the “everything must go in my mouth” stage, you can begin to teach them habits that will help protect them from germs such as cold and flu viruses. When to start? The earlier the better. Laura A. Jana, MD, a pediatrician in Omaha, Neb. And co-author of Heading Home with Your Newborn and Food Fights, states that it is much easier to introduce healthy hygiene habits when children … Read entire article »
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Taking walks can help deal with a common cold.
In order to keep colds at a distance in the coldest months of the year, exercising may just be the key. David Nieman, a spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine, states that it has been shown in studies that people who do at least 45 minutes of exercise four or more days a week take 25 to 50 percent less time off work due to being sick. In a news release from the sports medicine … Read entire article »
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The new school year bring worries about H1N1 Flu
The coming of the new school year brings more worries that swine flu could start to flare up again this fall. Although the CDC does not expect widespread school closures like in the fall last year, this flu season may be potentially worse than usual. Parents, kids and teachers do need to take preventative precautions and act early to reduce their risk of contracting the H1N1 virus. “We do know that [the virus] is going … Read entire article »
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