Thank you, Kevin Trudeau, for sharing these wonderful resources…

Hi Kevin!

I started the Candida cleanse in the New Year!!!

I am a 32 year old, mother of three children; my youngest being 10 months old. I have hypothyroidism, which I have had mostly under control with Natural Desiccated Thyroid. I didn’t get back to the gym until my baby was 6 months old, but it still took about 3 months of regular exercise before I saw a pants size drop and I was still not seeing much weight drop.

I had attempted this cleanse after my second child with a sharp weight drop, even though I only followed it for a couple of weeks. However, I was motivated to see if it could not only help with the weight, but help with the thyroid issue. I would love to get off medication!

Except for a couple of days where I caved in to some baking (kids kitchen activities) and for which I felt terrible afterwards, I have been following the food regimen, have managed to get to a sauna or hot bath almost everyday, and still regular exercise at the gym 3-5 times a week. I should be drinking more water, but being a busy mum of 3 kids, I can’t count how many cups of herbal tea have been left to go cold because of little sidetracks!

Still, the results after 25 days:
I have dropped 10lbs (155 – 145lbs)
I am no longer constipated (which I had always attributed to a thyroid symptom)
I have so much more energy
I am so much more alert and can concentrate better.
I am stronger with my exercise.
and yesterday I got into some of my size 10 jeans (at xmas I was just shopping for size 12 jeans)

Getting to the sauna (and gym) is also one of the best mum-time-outs ever!!! De-stress and detoxify!

I am yet to take a blood test to find out about the effect on my thyroid.

Also, I started taking Vitamin D in November and haven’t had a cold or flu ALL WINTER.

It has been such a learning curve to realize how much diet really does affect me. I used to think that I could eat anything and just exercise enough.

With these results, I am so motivated to keep on going and see it through, and I fully expect that by that time, my eating lifestyle will be rather profoundly changed!

Thank you, Kevin Trudeau, for sharing these wonderful resources! It is mind-blowing the amazing effects of what we choose in life. You really are what you eat!

Thanks again!
Jenny Lopez
Healdsburg, CA

Swine Flu Pandemic May Be Less Severe Than Expected

December 8, 2009

WebMD Health News

By Daniel J DeNoon

H1N1 swine flu won’t be as severe as was feared, but the pandemic is nothing to sneeze at, new predictions suggest.

When the fall/winter wave of H1N1 swine flu is over, it will have been no more severe than an average flu season, predict Harvard researcher Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, and colleagues from the U.K. Medical Research Council and the CDC.

“The good news is that … the severity of the H1N1 flu may be less than initially feared,” Lipsitch says in a news release.

There are some big asterisks next to that prediction:

    * Most of the deaths and hospitalizations in a typical flu season are elderly people. Most of those killed or hospitalized in the H1N1 swine flu pandemic are children and young adults.
    * Deaths attributed to seasonal flu include heart attacks, strokes, and other fatal conditions triggered by the flu. Nearly all deaths attributed to H1N1 flu are due to flu or to bacterial complications of flu.
    * The new predictions would be four or five times higher in populations without access to mechanical ventilation or intensive care.
    * All bets are off if the H1N1 swine flu shifts to older populations.

Even so, the new numbers are cause for relief if not for celebration. Before the 2009 H1N1 swine flu came along, planners were preparing for a pandemic with a case/fatality ratio of 0.1% — that is, for one death in every 1,000 symptomatic infections.

The Lipsitch team now calculates that the H1N1 swine flu has a case/fatality ratio no higher than 0.048% — and maybe seven to nine times lower, depending on the methods used for calculation.

“This is a serious disease,” Lipsitch says in the news release. He noted that between one in 70 and one in 600 people who fall ill with H1N1 swine flu will be hospitalized.

The CDC has been careful not to characterize the severity of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. The new predictions are very much in line with CDC’s working estimates, says Beth Bell, MD, MPH, associate director for science at the CDC’s immunization and respiratory disease center.

“This study sends the message that this is primarily a young person’s disease and highlights the importance of taking advantage of this window of opportunity to get the vaccine and take preventive measures,” Bell tells WebMD. “While most people who get this illness do OK, it can be very severe — and the severity is concentrated in younger people.”
H1N1 Swine Flu: Same Lung Damage as 1918 Flu

Highlighting the H1N1 flu’s ability to turn deadly is a new study from James R. Gill, MD, from the New York City Medical Examiner’s office, and Jeffrey Taubenberger, MD, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health.

Detailed autopsies of 34 people who died of H1N1 swine flu show that the virus typically kills by damaging the upper airways, although damage in the lower airways and deep lung was not uncommon.

Strikingly, the damage was very familiar.

“This pattern of pathology in the airway tissues is similar to that reported in autopsy findings of victims of both the 1918 and 1957 influenza pandemics,” Taubenberger says in a news release.

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Swine Flu Activity Down

November 20, 2009

ABC News

By Courtney Hutchison

Health officials and health care providers in many areas of the country are breathing a sigh of relief — albeit a cautious one — as the number of confirmed cases of H1N1, as well as flu-related emergency room visits and ICU cases, begins to decline.

While there is still widespread flu activity in many regions, surveillance data in at least seven states suggest that this fall’s surge in H1N1 flu activity is starting to subside. Additionally, ABC News heard from 30 hospitals throughout the country that say flu activity is down.

“We might actually be beyond the peak,” Dr. Pascal James Imperato, Dean of the SUNY School of Public Health told ABC News’ David Muir. Imperato, who has studied influenza for 37 years, says the decline in flu activity may indicate “the beginning of a downswing.”

And the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a comment to ABC News, said that 2009 H1N1 activity is declining in a number of areas around the country, though they caution that levels are still well above what is expected for influenza at this time of year, and could surge again.

“The wave has crested in our region. The real question now is how long the wave will continue to roll ashore,” said Frank James, health officer for San Juan County, Wash. “We could still be seeing cases into the winter months.”

In Maryland, health officials have reported declining levels of hospitalization for swine flu since a spike last month.

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Moscow Mayor promises a winter without snow

October 19, 2009

Time

By Simon Shuster

Pigs still can’t fly, but this winter, the mayor of Moscow promises to keep it from snowing. For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March. Road crews won’t need to constantly clear the streets, and traffic – and quality of life – will undoubtedly improve.

The idea came from Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is no stranger to playing God. In 2002, he spearheaded a project to reverse the flow of the vast River Ob through Siberia to help irrigate the country’s parched Central Asian neighbors. Although that idea hasn’t exactly turned out as planned – scientists have said it’s not feasible – this time, Luzhkov says, there’s no way he can fail.

Controlling the weather in Moscow is nothing new, he says. Ahead of the two main holidays celebrated in the city each year – Victory Day in May and City Day in September – the often cash-strapped air force is paid to make sure that it doesn’t, well, rain on the parades. With a city budget of $40 billion a year (larger than New York City’s budget), Moscow can easily afford the $2-3 million price tag to keep the skies blue as spectators watch the tanks and rocket launchers roll along Red Square. Now there’s a new challenge for the air force: Moscow’s notorious blizzards.

“You know how every year on City Day and Victory Day we create the weather?” Luzhkov asked a group of farmers outside Moscow in September, according to Russian media reports. “Well, we should do the same with the snow! Then outside Moscow there will be more moisture, a bigger harvest, while for us it won’t snow as much. It will make financial sense.”

The plan was unsurprisingly rubber-stamped this week by the Moscow City Council, which is dominated by Luzhkov’s supporters. Then the city’s Department of Housing and Public Works described how it would work. The air force will use cement powder, dry ice or silver iodide to spray the clouds from Nov. 15 to March 15 – and only to prevent “very big and serious snow” from falling on the city, said Andrei Tsybin, the head of the department. This could mean that a few flakes will manage to slip through the cracks. Tsybin estimated that the total cost of keeping the storms at bay would be $6 million this winter, roughly half the amount Moscow normally spends to clear the streets of snow.

So far the main objection to the plan has come from Moscow’s suburbs, which will likely be inundated with snow if the plan goes forward. Alla Kachan, the Moscow region’s ecology minister, said the proposal still needs to be assessed by environmental experts and discussed with the people living in the area before Luzhkov can enact it. “The citizens of the region have some concerns. We have received lots of messages,” she told the RIA news agency.

With only a few weeks left before winter comes, environmentalists will have to work fast to keep Luzhkov from implementing his zaniest plan to date – and to stop the first snowflakes from wafting down to the city streets.

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