Why Flu Season Happens During the Winter Months
I hope you’re having a great day today! It’s a glorious autumn day, here in the Midwest as the trees approach their peak seasonal splendor.
Thank you for your feedback regarding the first edition of my holistic health newsletter. It was a rather long article, and I appreciate your baring with the length. But I felt it was necessary to give you enough information to understand H1N1 in a way that you will be able to comfortably deal with the information overload surrounding this outbreak. Once we complete these special editions on the flu (one or two more to follow) future editions will contain shorter articles on current topics—usually 4 to 6 per issue.
In part one we covered a few important and little known facts about the H1N1 influenza (Swine flu) pandemic. Today we’re going to take a look at the “flu season” and why it occurs during the fall and winter months.
Do you know why? The most common answer is that people are indoors all of the time and are in much closer contact with one another. For our society, that’s not true, we spend most of our time indoors year round. It’s something even more simple than that. Influenza infections occur year round, but they peak during fall and winter-with a direct correlation to sunshine exposure. I’ll explain why. But first,
Do You Know:
1. Why the flu happens during the dark winter months, after December 21, the winter solstice?
2. Why the flu is almost non-existent during the summer months, after June 21?
3. Why influenza happens most frequently in tropical climates during rainy seasons?
4. Why the cold and rainy weather associated with El Nino and is also is associated with influenza?
5. Why the incidence of influenza is inversely related to outdoor temperatures?
6. Why children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get colds?
7. Why cod liver oil reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections?
8. Why Russian scientists found that UVB lamps reduced colds and flu in schoolchildren and factory workers?
9. Why Russian scientists found that volunteers, deliberately infected with a weakened flu virus – first in the summer and then again in the winter – show significantly different clinical courses in the different seasons?
10. Why the elderly who live in countries with high fish consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die in the winter?
11. Why children with rickets suffer from frequent respiratory infections?
12. Why an observant physician, who gave high doses of a certain nutrient to children who were constantly sick from colds and the flu, found the treated children were suddenly free from infection,
13. Why the elderly are so much more likely to die from heart attacks in the winter rather than in the summer?
14. Why African Americans, are more likely to die from influenza and pneumonia than Whites are?
15. The powerful nutrient that only sunshine can produce in your body?
Click here for the surprising yet very interesting answers.
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