Covid And Flu Is Going Around Here Now. I Have A Theory….

That when people start overindulging in eating sweets that it causes inflammation and affects the immune system and leads to a lot of flu etc. I don’t catch things like that often but the last two times (in two years) it was after I overindulged in sweets like homemade cookies. When I figured that out it motivated me to stop using sugar for baking and to use stevia or monkfruit instead. So many buy Halloween candy around the first of October and then start snacking and eat it up a week or more before Halloween and then go buy more. When they don’t get the trick-or-treaters at their door like they planned for, they finish off what they bought. Perfect for inflammation and setting themselves up to get sick.

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4meAndyou · F

Also, people start closing their doors and windows when the weather gets cold. If someone IS carrying a virus, there is no fresh air circulating to remove it, so everyone breathes it in.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou Overheating the air inside the home and drying it out is big problem too. Dry and warm air is the best type to spread germs. My uncle would tell me about the Swine flu in the early 1900’s. He said people would use wood stoves to heat their homes and they believed if they kept the house really warm that it would prevent catching colds etc. But it did the exact opposite. And he also said they would do good to get an orange at Christmas in their stockings. Because fruit was hard to come by for them back then in the winter months. And they didn’t get that many fresh veggies either. They lacked enough vitamins and that played a part in people getting sick too.