What A Change In The Weather

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

Well for those folks who don’t like hot weather, this weekend was for you. It looks like we’ve passed the hot weather and headed towards winter. Hopefully the temperatures will come back a little bit because I’m not ready for dealing with cold weather this long until next spring-ha. I even noticed some snow flurries during the weekend and that makes it seem even colder. I’m trying to remind people that since it is colder and the furnaces are running more, to make sure and have their humidifiers running so that the air doesn’t get to dry and irritate the sinuses and lung tissues. If these tissues get inflamed, it sets you up for infections in the sinuses or lungs.

This month in our health shop, we are talking about Preparing for Winter. This week we are talking about Preparing the Immune System to handle the stresses of the season. Of course, at Natural Health, we are helping patients find the nutritional supplements that work best for their body to help their immune system stay strong over this cold weather season. But what is coming up that throws a monkeywrench into this?-the holidays. We start with Halloween and all the candy and junk people eat, of course were noticing some sicknesses from that already, and then add Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year’s, then Valentine’s Day, and then Easter. These holidays seem to be great opportunities for people to eat junk and sugar which again, burns up the good nutrition in their body and then they wonder why they have colds and flu and even pneumonia at the end of winter. Add to that the lack of sunshine which helps create vitamin D in the body and we have a recipe for a health disaster. It just a matter of making good choices during these holidays and not overdoing the ultra processed foods.

Speaking of ultra processed foods, the article that I’m sending along looks at why these types of food cause early deaths. It’s a fairly simple principle in that processing foods to the point that they have no good nutrition helps the manufacturer’s and store owners keep the foods longer on the shelf without them going bad. The problem is that all this ultra processing removes the good nutrients our bodies need to be healthy so what good are these foods if they don’t help to provide good nutrition? It’s just important to realize that this goes on all the time and most people don’t even understand what these “foods” are doing to them. At Natural Health, we are always trying to overcome this problem and educate patients to understand what they are doing to themselves. 

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Dr. Mark