Sandy Powers asked:


Can You Protect Yourself From The Swine Flu?         

                         By Sandy Powers

 

Every day our bodies are attacked by viruses and bacteria that weaken our immune system and make us more vulnerable to diseases like the Swine Flu.

 

Swine Flu is a serious disease.  All flues are serious.  Even with the flu shots so many people get, around 36,000 people die in the United States yearly from the flu.  The concern is that a pandemic may occur.  If it does, many more people will die.  A pandemic is a disease that affects people worldwide.  An epidemic is more contained.

 

The Swine Flu is a respiratory illness that is spread from pigs to humans to other humans.  We spread it to each other much like we do colds—coughing, sneezing, and touching things with the virus on it.  Wearing masks offer little protection unless you are also wearing disposable gloves and wash your hands well after disposing of both, then disinfecting the sink and handles.  Unrealistic.

 

Symptoms are regular flu symptoms—fever, running nose, sore throat, and you can develop vomiting and diarrhea.

 

Treatment:  Antibiotics don’t work against viruses.  The antivirals may work but problems are developing that viruses are becoming immune to them.  Plus to work, you must take them within 48 hours of contact.  Often, with the flu, you don’t recognize the symptoms until it is too late for the antivirals to work.

 

So, how can we protect ourselves?

 

We keep our immune system in top shape so that if we do contact the Swine Flu, our bodies will fight serious complications.  We boost our immune system with certain foods.

Double the orange juice.  Don’t forget the kids.  Have them trade some of that apple juice for orange juice.

Eat carrots, sweet potatoes, and sweet bell peppers.

Beans, whole grains, nuts, especially walnuts, shrimp, and red meat.

Garlic and onions are great for boosting the immune system.

Get your Vitamin D from the sun 15 minutes a day.  Make sure your kids go outside after school for 15 minutes without sunscreen.

Drink plenty of liquids throughout the day to prevent dehydration even if you have no symptoms.

 

A meal that is loaded with immune boosters is Chili.  Make with ground beef, red, green, and yellow sweet peppers, tomatoes, garlic, onions, and lots of beans.

 



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coralsnayk asked:


Since vaccinations are the result of Medical Science which is built upon many sciences, including evolutionary biology, are such things not an affront to fundamentalists who insist, INSIST that not only is evolutionary theory wrong (ooh, it’s JUST a theory) but that evolution itself which anyone may observe(and most people have observed), is not a fact?

If viruses and bacteria do not evolve within their strain populations to become resistant to various drugs, and indeed, the human immune system, why would people ever need flu shots or vaccinations beyond childhood? If the pathogens are not changing and adapting, doesn’t a single vaccine in early childhood not provide all the assisted immunity one needs?

So how many people who deny the fact of evolution would choose to abstain from adulthood vaccinations since these medicines are indirect products of evolutionary theory?
To macacopreto:

No, evolution is an observed fact. Evolutionary Theory is NOT an observed fact. Theories in science define, describe, and make predictions about observed NATURAL Facts.

Evolution is defined as a change in the frequency of genes within a population’s collective genome. That this occurs and occurs is an observed fact. When a viable member of a population is born, evolution has occurred. When a fertile member of a population has died, evolution has occurred as well. Adaptation to a changing environment (redundant, all environments change) is 1 RESULT of evolution, if 1) it occurs to a population, and 2) it is genetically mediated. Evolution does not occur within individuals’ bodies, but within populations.

There is no such thing as “devolution”. If a daughter population does not possess a structure that a parent population has, this is still evolution. Gain or loss, there are no directed goals except for differential reproductive success. It is all evolution.
cbmultiplechoice:

Of course, they are still viruses and bacteria. You are confusing macroevolution with speciation. One species does not give rise to something that qualifies as another family of organism. Even when populations speciate (ie become infertile with their parent populations), they are still very similar to their parent populations. When drugs wipe out most individuals, the surviving, resistant members have not necessarily become a new species, but are called a new strain. Since viruses and bacteria do not, per se, reproduce sexually, the mode for differential reproductive success is mutation and genetic drift, not sexual recombination. (Though some bacteria do conjugate with other organisms).

If you are suggesting that I claim that a bacteria population gives immediate rise to something other than bacteria, I am not claiming that. Evolution does not work that way. Science does not claim that has or even can happen. The fossil record shows this takes MUCH longer.

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