First confirmed case of swine flu in Arizona ...

The Tucson Citizen reports the first confirmed Arizona case of swine flu. The eight year old Phoenix boy has already recovered.

... England said it appears that this flu is no more virulent than other types. He said the boy recovered and had returned to school before the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed he had swine flu.

Don't know how Dr. Bob England, Maricopa County's health director, made that judgement from one Arizona case, but perhaps he's psychic.

Nevertheless, the boy's elementary school was closed.

New York, Texas, California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Nevada, Ohio and Maine also have verified cases of swine flu.

According to this article:

Health officials said people should treat the swine flu strain like any other flu - contact your personal doctor, and stay home and cover sneezes and coughs to avoid spreading the virus. Patients should seek additional medical help if fever persists or spikes, breathing is difficult or other severe symptoms develop.

Why does the food industry hate us?

If they're not feeding ground animals to herbivores or adding bacteria and other unpleasant things to our meats and vegetables they are shoveling salt into the processed convenience foods they engineer for attractiveness, tastiness and addictive qualities. Their engineering and marketing talents cover everything except nutrition and wholesomeness.

• 2300 milligrams (1 teaspoon) a day is the recommended upper limit for sodium.
• Most Americans get at least 4000 mg per day.
• 75% of that salt come from processed foods.

So the easiest way to reduce salt intake would be to cut out processed foods.

The food industry could reduce the salt they use to help make their concoctions palatable and addictive but have you noticed that when they reduce the salt they increase the sugar or the fat or both?

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Children raised on soda and juice are growing up with weak bones.
This is a short video at WebMD. Of course the short ad at the beginning is for juice. And the solution is Tums. I think WebMD is too dependent on advertising to trust them to do any more than present corporate controlled 'wisdom. '

Physical activity greater influence on mobility in old age than weight ...

'Use it or lose it' --Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, UK, have concluded a study that proves a direct link between levels of physical activity in middle age and physical ability later in life – regardless of body weight.

[...] Physical activity of about 30 minutes three or more times a week resulted in fewer than 13 per cent of people developing some sort of physical disability, while this rate increased to 24 per cent where subjects were less active.

Dr. Lang commented: “There are three truly interesting results from this research. The first is that our findings were similar from the US and the UK, which suggests that they are universal. The second is that exercise in middle age does not just benefit people in terms of weight loss – it also helps them to remain physically healthy and active later in life. The third is that, in terms of results from activity, weight does not seem to be an issue.” ...

Of eyesight and birthmonth ...

All kinds of good little tidbits (don't know if they're true or not) in this article: Researchers discover correlation between birth month and short-sightedness

AIDS and China ...

For some reason the Chinese government is disbanding groups that help fight AIDS or support AIDS sufferers.

And they are doing this to hide the extent of their AIDS' problem from the world so it won't impact on the Olympic Games????

My question: Did George Bush learn from China or did China learn from George Bush? Or is this a case of parallel 'development.'

Sometimes the Tucson Citizens gets it right ...

Tucson Citizen Our Opinion: Cancer and races

... Together, the Edwardses have decided to continue John Edwards' campaign for the nomination.

Critics have said the family needs to get its priorities straight. Leave the campaign trail. Concentrate on family. Get right with God. (That last one comes from the ever-helpful St. Rush of Limbaugh.)

All of the suggestions are offered with the best of intentions. But they're all variations on the same theme: Go home and wait to die.

Elizabeth Edwards doesn't want to do that. She feels fine, she knows her family better than anyone and she wants to continue the race. She wants to make the same life choices everyone else does. She wants to accomplish something she feels strongly about. ...