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10 Foods to Help You Avoid the Swine Flu

The threat of contracting swine flu may be remote for many segments of the population, but there is still good reason to do everything we can to build up our immune systems to ward off  H1N1 and any other strains that may be circulating.  Although downing massive amounts of vitamins, minerals and other supplements may [...]

Nine Nasty Foodborne Illnesses

It has been awhile since we’ve heard about any major food recalls, which is good news.  The potential for a swine flu outbreak has knocked tainted food out of the headlines.  However, that doesn’t mean we should let down our guard.  Food poisoning is on the rise and can hit without any warning.  Although we [...]

Russia, China, Dozens More Ban U.S. Pork

China and Russia — who are among the largest buyers of U.S. pork — as well as the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, St. Lucia, Indonesia, Thailand, Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Macedonia, South Korea and Malaysia, continue to ban U.S. pork; the ban was originally implemented during the beginning of the swine flu outbreak.
In addition to China’s [...]

25,000 Waiters, Bartenders Jobless in Mexico City

Despite businesses reopening in Mexico City and economic activities resuming to normal levels, customers are still reluctant to visit the estimated 2,500 restaurants that were closed during 10 days because of the H1N1 flu virus.
Though the global financial crises had already adversely affected restaurant tourist traffic in Mexico City, the ten day closure of all [...]

W.H.O. May Raise Alert Level To 6 – What You Should Eat To Guard Against Pandemic

According to The New York Times, the number of swine flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization will soon have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level. Additionally, AP reports a school assistant principal has become the first New York City death [...]

Bacon Cures Hangovers

Here’s something to try this weekend if you happen to party too hearty and end up with the hangover from hell.
Bacon.
The old wives tale about bacon curing hangovers has been scientifically proven.  According to Dr. Elin Roberts, science development manager at Newcastle University’s Centre for Life,  bacon naturally and easily takes away those ugly morning-after [...]

H7N9 Flu Found in Tyson Breeder Hens

The reasons to buy organic grow by the day. Case in point, 15,000 breeder hens being raised for Tyson Foods Inc., by a contracted grower in Lincoln County, Tennessee, were destroyed after tests showed the presence of a strain of avian influenza called H7N9 — a cousin of the far more devastating H5N1.
“Although we are [...]

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Factory Farm “Manure Lagoons” Linked To Swine Flu Outbreak

Mexico’s earliest confirmed case of swine flu was a five-year-old boy named Edgar Hernandez of La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico, also home of Granjas Carroll Farm, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork packer and hog producer; Granjas Carroll Farm raises 950,000 hogs per year.
Grist Magazine’s Tom Phillpot reports that the [...]

Is “Swine Flu” Linked To Pigs?

It wasn’t me!

To answer that question the United Nations’ food agency is sending its animal health experts to Mexico to check if the new strain of flu virus, popularized as swine flu, is in reality directly linked to pigs.
“At present, transmission seems to be occurring solely from humans to humans,” said the Food and Agriculture [...]

Yogurt Can Help Guard Against Swine Flu

Since studies have shown that those with higher vitamin D blood levels are less likely to contract avian influenza, higher concentrations of vitamin D in the blood may also help to guard against swine flu.
Even though milk is fortified with vitamin D, dairy products made from milk such as cheese, yogurt, and ice cream are [...]