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In article <1127493737.800894.160730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>It makes more sense to just ensure that you eat well and thus develop
>and maintain a strong immune system. And that means cutting out the
>junk food, the sugar-laden crap and fake fats like margarine, and of
>course supplement with the best anti-viral/anti-biotic known to man -
>vitamin C.
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>vaccines are superflous to good health.
Eating well is good advice for anyone, but the people who are at risk
of serious illness and death from influenza are the elderly and
chronically ill, whose immune systems can't be made strong enough by
diet to fight off the virus. Unfortunately, the elderly are also
unable to develop good immunity from vaccination. It makes sense for
healthy people, who might get only a mild case of the flu, to be
immunized so they can't pass it on to those whom it may kill.
While most flu strains are dangerous only to those in the above high
risk categories, remember that the 1918 flu epidemic killed mainly
young healthy people in their 20s and 30s. So far the people who have
become critically ill or died from avian flu contracted from poultry
have been mainly in that age range and younger. They are mostly rural
people who have probably never seen margarine and consume little or no
junk food. Their diet is grains and vegetables with small amounts of
animal protein and they get plenty of exercise.
Good diet will help you resist some infectious diseases, but some are
virulent enough to overwhelm the resistance of even a very healthy
person with a very healthy lifestyle. Some examples are Ebola, HIV,
bubonic plague, smallpox and some strains of influenza. To believe you
are safe because you never get a cold is putting your head in the
sand. And you might think of others who could die by getting the virus
from you even if you have a very mild case yourself.
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