I was organizing files on my computer and ran across this file called “The Local Connection: Natural Therapeutics for Preventing, or Reducing the Severity of, Influenza Infection” sent to me by local Eugene Chapter member, Nick Routledge. It describes how a diet based on the Weston A. Price Foundation principles is part of a program to improve immune system.
The Local Connection: Natural Therapeutics for Preventing,
or Reducing the Severity of, Influenza Infection.
By Nick Routledge and Sonja Ljungdahl
Eugene-Springfield.
Version 2.22 (Updated September 26, 2009)A wealth of evidence clearly shows that simple steps to support general health are a highly effective way of significantly reducing the likelihood of influenza infection and of markedly lessening the severity of symptoms should infection occur. Here’s a simple guide to stacking the odds in your favor.
1. Food as medicine
We eat three times a day. Why not have food be your medicine? A truly coherent diet not only supports your health but the wellbeing of everything and everybody around you – local soils, water, flora, fauna and community. Vitamin and mineral content of food varies enormously depending on the methods used to raise that food: the micronutrient content of American fruits, vegetables and meat products has declined significantly during the last fifty years.Even among those of us eating balanced diets, chronic, commonplace, nutritional deficiencies confirm that most commercially-sourced foods are now ‘anemic’, simply lacking the nutritional density of their forebears. A sound diet is therefore keenly alert not only to the balance of its ingredients, and the aptness of its preparation but, crucially, the integrity of its source. Your best medicine is local food raised on well-stewarded soils.
2. Support healthy digestion year-round.
We strongly recommend a diet consisting of whole foods that are fresh, nutrient-dense, properly prepared and raised by local growers you trust….
To read the whole article download this file: preventionv22.pdf
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