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Bacteria in Water – Are You at Risk?

What do you see when you look at a glass full of tap water? Though you may not be able to see bacteria in water from naked eye and it may appear real clean to you, but the truth is that it is highly contaminated. There are numerous impurities in it and many of them have proven to be associated with cancer too.

If you take a sample of tap water and use a standard home testing kit to check its quality, you will realize that it has all types of impurities including chlorine, pesticides, cysts, virus, metal traces etc.

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Do the Seasons Affect Your Immune System?

Every year at the onset of the winter season, it seems this starts the season for colds and flu as well. Viruses abound and the importance of a healthy immune system is extremely important to help fight off the illness. It is important to know that viruses can actually live in the air for hours before infecting someone. So, when you are out and about, picking up a virus from someone who is ill is not uncommon.

The immune system is actually at work fighting colds and flu when you begin to sneeze and cough. This is your systems way of trying to flush it from the body. If you have a healthy immune system, you can harbor the virus and not show any signs of illness. The key to fighting seasonal illnesses is to stay healthy.

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Swine Flu Health Statistics and Political Correctness, Very Dangerous

A recent N1H1 Swine Flu report of Los Angeles California stated that the serious hospitalized swine flu cases that resulted in deaths, showed that two thirds of those who died were obese. Unfortunately, in Los Angeles two thirds of all citizens are overweight. You can see why it is dangerous to use such statistics, because people might get the impression that you don’t have anything to worry about unless you are overweight.

The reality is that people who are very skinny tend to get sick much more often than people that have a little bit of extra weight on them. That is to say people with extremely low body fat do actually get sick more often than people that have an adequate level of body fat. And it should also be noted that swine flu can affect anybody. So just because you are skinny does not mean you are immune to it, and just because you are a little overweight doesn’t mean you will die from it.

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