Shoo the Flu

Flu, flu, flu--we can hardly watch television or listen to the radio without hearing something about the flu. Experts are everywhere, all eager to share their opinions. This season we have a new flu challenge-- the H1N1 (swine flu) virus. How can we stay healthy amongst all this adversity?

Consider the following basic preventative measures.

1. Clean your hands. Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth. One of the easiest ways to avoid colds and flu is to be scrupulous about washing your hands. Use soap and water and scrub for at least 20 seconds. Use a paper towel to turn off the water and open the bathroom door to avoid re-contamination.
2. Cover your mouth and nose. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Cough and sneeze into your shoulder or the crook of your elbow instead of your hands. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth to reduce the spread of germs.
3. Avoid close contact. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.
4. Don’t share drinks, cosmetics, cell phones, etc., with those who appear sick.
5. Stay home when you are sick. If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. You will help prevent others from catching your illness.
6. Practice other good health habits.
   o Get plenty of sleep. Lack of sleep can lower the immune system's ability to react when needed and hampers its essential nightly repair work.
   o Be physically active
   o Manage your stress
   o Drink plenty of fluids
   o Eat nutritious food. Plenty of nutritious food is essential to building a healthy immune system. A well-balanced diet provides sources of energy and nutrition.
   o Augment your diet by adding vitamins and other supplements to your daily routine. Vitamin C is useful in warding off colds, but there are other supplements that you should consider as well. Having the immune system working at peak efficiency before getting sick is far more effective than waiting until getting sick.
   

The author suggests other supplements from the Shaklee Corporation. Below is a link that shows the Immune Support supplements. For over 50 years, generations of families have counted on Shaklee to do what no other company can do quite like it—make products that are naturally safe AND proven effective. Shaklee is the the #1 Natural Nutrition Company in the United States. Shaklee products support the immune system to help it respond when needed.*

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* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Kidney Stone Study compares Shaklee Performance to Gatorade

Kidney Stone Study ...
with Shaklee Performance
compared to Gatorade

When you are the leader in the natural food supplement
industry, people sometimes test your products without
you even knowing about it.

That was exactly what happen with a recent study
comparing the effects of Shaklee's Performance and
Gatorade on the risk of kidney stone formation.

This was the ultimate independent study.

Shaklee didn't initiate it. They didn't support it.
And, in fact, they didn't even know about it until it
was published a couple of weeks ago (J.W. Goodman et
al, Urol. Res., 37: 41-46, 2009).

Before I get into the results of the study, perhaps I
should start with an explanation of why you would even
want to do that kind of study.

Let's start with the problem - kidney stones. They are
extremely painful, and they can damage the kidney -
particularly if they form over and over again.

To a urologist the solution is simple - just drink two
liters of water a day.

The problem is that you have to really, really, really
like water to drink two liters a day, and most people
just aren't that into water.

In fact, previous studies had shown that even when
patients had a previous kidney stone and were told by
their urologist to drink two liters of water a day, the
everage result was an increase of only 0.3 liters a day
of water.

So this group of urologists asked what people were
drinking instead of water.

The latest trends show that soft drink consumption is
decreasing and consumption of sports drinks and energy
drinks is increasing. And, there was absolutely no
information on whether sports drinks increased or
decreased the risk of kidney stone formation.

So they decided to look at two well-known sports
drinks, Shaklee's Performance and Gatorade, to see
whether they would increase or decrease the risk of
kidney stone formation compared to the consumption of
an equivalent amount of water.

They looked at the effect of each sports drink on the
amount of citrate in the urine and by how much they
increased the pH of the urine because each of these
decreases the risk of kidney stone formation.

They also looked at the effect of each sports drink on
the amount of sodium and calcium in the urine because
each of those increases the risk of kidney stone
formation.

Performance significantly increased the amount of
citate and the pH of the urine, while Gatorade had no
effect on either of them.

Neither Performance or Gatorade had an significant
effect on sodium or calcium levels in the urine.

Thus, they concluded that Shaklee's Performance was
superior to either Gatorade or water alone at deceasing
the risk of kidney stone formation.

Now you might be tempted to say that this study was of
more interest to urologists than the general public.
but my guess is that if you have ever suffered through
a kidney stone this study is of great interest to you.

But to me the more important conclusion is that, once
again, independent clinical studies show the
superiority of Shaklee products.

To your health!

Dr. Stephen Chaney, PhD
Shaklee Master Coordinator

P.S. Coming soon: My latest CD "Tune-Up Your Immune
System". Look for it at:
http://www.chaneyhealth.com

CHECK OUT SHAKLEE PERFORMANCE AT LINK BELOW.

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