The wisdom mothers have been dispensing for ages - wash your hands, eat your vegetables, go to bed earlier - turns out to be great advice for avoiding the flu.

Doctors and nutritionists say careful hygiene, a balanced diet and plenty of rest and fluids can go a long way toward keeping people healthy during the influenza season.

Frequent hand-washing, using soap and hot water and rubbing vigorously for about half a minute, also is crucial.

 Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth, because germs on your hand could infect you.

That means the flu virus or other germs via a handshake or touching a doorknob, computer keyboard or other surface, where those germs can live for hours. Now doctors are urging that, if a tissue isn’t at hand, people - especially children - should sneeze into their sleeve.

Don’t skip the water, because eight glasses of fluid a day is essential to health, aiding in almost every process in the body.
 
Regular exercise helps boost our immune system, so that’s important, too.

 Variety in the diet is important, but people should emphasize plant foods, including whole grains and at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, according to an American Dietetic Association spokesperson.

People can help keep their immune system strong by eating foods rich in vitamins A, C and E: citrus fruits, melons and red peppers; and nuts, spinach,
-Associated Press

How to Prevent the Flu
Dr. Keith & Laurie Nemec comments: 
These are just common sense recommendations–the wisdom of the ages passed down.
As we just stated by going to bed earlier you tremendously boost your immune system, more so than any supplement can.
Next, eat your vegetables and make sure they are not cooked.  Living/raw uncooked vegetables, sprouts, legumes, seeds, nuts have  bioelectrical charges to jump start sick cells back into health.  They also have enzymes (if have not been cooked) which are a key component in health and healing.  The higher the enzyme levels in a person, the higher the level of health in that person.  Who has the highest enzyme level–a new born baby and an extremely healthy person.  Remember this saying “Living food makes living people and dead (cooked) food eventually makes diseased, dying and dead people”.
Third is to wash your hands and never touch your eyes, nose or mouth with your hands when you are out in public.  If you must, then use the back of your hand that has not touched anything.
Spirit
Who Are You?
You are a spirit being who has a mind, will, and emotions, who lives in a physical house we call your body. 
Today we will describe the third division of your mind which is your subconscious or unconscious mind.
Unconscious Mind
This is the stored memory, the recording tape of your entire life. This contains every event that has ever happened to you, the ones you remember and mostly the ones you do not. These are still stored in the unconscious mind – all the lies, all the stored memories—held inside, negative emotions (which are negative energy that actually takes up residence in your organs, glands, tissues, and body parts). All your life experiences are stored here and if they were negative, toxic emotions (which are generated from the lie-filled old mind) they are buried in the unconscious mind and also in the organs, glands, tissues, and body parts of the entire body. To heal, to become whole in body, mind, and spirit one must first reprogram the conscious thinking mind with Truth, then the unconscious mind will begin to “let go of” or release the stored lies and the stored emotions (negative energy) that were created by those lies, and begin to reprogram and renew with Truth. This happens when the supremeconscious mind that is filled with Truth, starts to reprogram the conscious thinking mind with that Truth. When two of the three parts of the mind are filled with Truth, they naturally start to reprogram the unconscious mind to let go of the lies and fill up with the Truth that they are filled with. This is like running distilled water through the mineral clogged water pipes in your house. Eventually all these mineral deposits will dissolve, as they are absorbed into the mineral free distilled water. The distilled water is the Truth; in time all the blockages in the pipes (the stored lies in your body, in your unconscious mind and in your conscious mind) will “let go of” those mineral deposits, those stored lies, and negative energy, and the pure water (the Truth) will flow freely and fill all the pipes in your house (your organs, glands, tissues, and body parts). No more blockages because all have been “let go of” to the Truth which flows through the house – which is you. Learn more on this topic in the Seven Basic Steps to Total Health™, Seven Stages of Energetic Healing and the How to Know You are Healed audio series
 

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