Tips for Beating the Swine Flu Outbreak

Ever seen that movie Outbreak? Its a '90's film with Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo. It also featured a Capuchin monkey.

At the time when I watched the movie, I think I became a little bit more conscious about what was going on around me. If I was taking public transportation and someone sneezed, I just held my breath for a minute and tried to get some fresh air from outside the window. Constant coughing had me paranoid.

Well that was a whole different disease and I won't want the government to deal with the swine flu as they did in Outbreak.

As the swine flu speads across the world with pandemic threats, its very important to know how to lessen the chances of getting infected.

It might be a smart idea to do what the CDC suggests.

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Dispose of the tissue in the trash after you use it.

• Wash your hands with soap and water especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs can spread this way.

• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.


• If possible try to avoid shaking hands.


• Should you get sick, the CDC recommends that you stay at home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

Lastly, since flus of any kind usually attack the immune system it would be a good idea to keep yours in top shape. Get plenty of sleep, eat nutriciously and keep yourself clean on the inside and outside.

Don't go out for a posh lunch on Mondays!

It's always a smart idea to eat out...

I've been holding aces up my sleeve for a day that comes around quite rarely. (A day when the missus and I are both off together)

That may sound a bit odd, but she works shifts, any 5 out of 7 days, And as parents anytime that we do get off seems to be focused around educating (Montessori Style), feeding, entertaining and cleaning up after the 2 little brats. The two of us actually getting a day to ourselves is quite a miracle with an 8yr old girl and 4yr old little man! However last Monday we struck lucky...

It was about 12:05am and I began to feel a bit peckish, I said to the wife that we hadn’t had a posh lunch date for at least six months or, and suggested we take the opportunity to do so before the kids has to be collected from school...Within 10 minutes we were both ready for the “relaxing” afternoon together; I intended to pull out one of those aces...

We drove about 25 minutes to a lovely hidden country pub/restaurant I stumbled upon a few months ago. This would be my 3^rd visit and I was really excited, I’m hard to please when it comes to food, and I’d given this particular pub/restaurant 9/10 on both previous visits. The two of us were in for a treat.

How wrong was I! We were greeted beautifully as we entered and asked if we wanted a table for 2 which of course we did and were led through to the restaurant. It was then that I saw the first signs. It was nothing more than a few dirty tables but in a place like this, (where presentation is so important) I knew that they were crashing! The host sat us down and departed gracefully.

We didn’t have to wait too long wait for the waitress, she came over and very pleasantly asked if we would like a drink, as she did so she realised that we didn’t have a drinks menu and went off to fetch one....we then to placed our order for 2 glasses of house red :)... When we asked what the fish of the day was? She again wandered off in search of an answer, I thought if we just got off to a bad start!

But no, our little helper had to research a starter dish, forgot about the extra glass of red the missus wanted, the kitchen sent out very over cooked, instead of the ‘medium rare’ lamb we asked for, and we got baby new potatoes instead of roasted but to top it off my baked crab and avocado al forno had NO pasta in it.

At the end of lunch we sat for a few moments and just thought about the whole experience. Our waitress was very pleasant, even with her long untied hair, jeans torn away at the bottom from being walked on, (apparently fashion!) Chipped and warn nail polish, we decided never to go out for a posh l lunch on a Monday.

All the good staff are off for the day, knackered from a busy weekend, believe me it’s a smart move!

Do One Thing At A Time

This world can be a confusing place.

We have so many perturbations on us that we sometimes can't think straight. We have so much to do and we try to get everything done as soon as possible. What occurs is that we do not do things correctly and we join the ranks of the non-productive. We do not get a reward for our efforts.

The solution is to do one thing at a time. Big shot executives may write down two or three important things to do and they ignore all of the rest. They concentrate on that one most important thing and they do it right. They get their rewards.

Frustration can keep us from being focused. If we are not focused, we miss the target. So to stay focused, do that one most important thing and ignore the rest.

OK! You are a mother of four (4) and you can't do this. Well, put the kids to bed and work on that one thing. Send your husband to bed saying, "I'll be right there, Honey!" Then do your thing. When you go to bed an hour later, say, "Couldn't you stay awake for ten minutes?"

Yes, you have to schedule that one most important thing to exclude all else.

John
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Smart about your whole foods

Smart "old wives tales"
The regular advice your grandma ever gave you (apart from "don't touch that") may have been the best: eat more fruit and vegetables. Is that a smart idea? Here's the 2009 update: eat more whole foods. Whole foods can be easily defined as anything - fruits, vegetables, meats, grains that are brought to you untreated and in their organic state, in there purest form. They are, simply, food, not food-derived products that host a lot of vitamin enriched or calcium fortified and govern the modern food stores of today. More than anything else, being smart with whole foods diet won't just help you live more healthily, but it can also help protect the environment.

Whole foods provide nutrients in their most natural unprocessed state, when they are best able to absorb into the body and start making a difference straight away. Omega-3 enriched orange juice, for example, may sound good, but you're better off getting your vitamin C from a real orange and your Omega-3 fatty acids from a natural source, such as oily fish such as mackerel or herrings or nuts, these whole foods are smart foods, they contain balanced combinations of other vital vitamins and minerals that are much better for your body.

What gases do you let off?
It's been shown that eating whole foods can also cut major carbon emissions. The most recent EPA assess connect over 24 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions to the food industry, a large part of which comes from food processing and packaging. By being a little smarter and keeping to whole foods, you can stop these emissions altogether. A smart diet of whole foods can be extremely easy to follow, and you don't have to shop at "Whole Foods R Us". Simply avoid processed and packaged foods as much as you can steer clear of refined grains and sugars.

For the most part, this means looking for whole grain bread and pasta products, avoiding low-fat and falsely enriched foods that have been modified from their original forms, and staying out of fast food joints. By not accepting these additives and modifications, we all will have a better, healthier smarter existence whilst reducing your environmental impact.

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