I try to keep an eye out for good information on fighting colds and flu. I have not been posting lately as sometimes life has a way of making unreasonable demands on your time. Doesn’t Life know that keeping up a blog is important?

Anyway, I found a great post at:

http://en.facebox.com/abgmie/blog/blogid=53351

That goes into some depth on the topic of fighting colds and flu.

The poster (abgmie) talks about who is at risk (young people, old people, those who don’t exercise, eat right, etc) and about how colds and flu are transmitted. This is, of course, generally through touch or airborne transmission.

They also go on to talk about what do if you come down with something. The list includes rest, drinking plenty of clear fluids (pop and beer don’t count!) and avoiding sugar - which is something that’s not mentioned nearly enough. Sugar is one of those “white foods” that we should be avoiding anyway. There is very little nutritional value in “white foods” and stuff like sugar can even be harmful, especially in large quantities.

Not smoking and staying away from smoky areas is not something I generally mention, because I’ve assumed that people reading this are generally health oriented and would not be smoking anyway. Maybe that assumption’s not valid, so I’ll say it here: don’t smoke, it’s bad for you.

abgmie also includes advice for avoiding colds, so I’ll stop stealing their thunder and you can go have a look for yourself.