Protecting yourself from the swine flu!

someone sent me this article please have aread it's only short.

More Evidence Vitamin D Beats the Flu
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
October 03 2006 | 9,041 views


In April 2005, an influenza epidemic started sweeping through the maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane where Dr. John Cannell worked.
As the epidemic progressed, he noticed something unusual: although wards all around his became infected, no patients on his ward became ill, despite intermingling of both patients and nurses.
The only difference was that all of the patients on Dr. Cannell's ward had been taking 2,000 units of vitamin D every day for several months or longer.

Shortly after the epidemic, a paper in the journal Nature showed that vitamin D was a potent antibiotic, working by increasing the body's production of proteins called antimicrobial peptides. Antimicrobial peptides destroy the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the influenza virus.
Dr. Cannell posits that this explains such matters as:
Why the flu predictably occurs in the months following the winter solstice, when vitamin D levels are at their lowest
Why influenza is more common in the tropics during the rainy season
Why children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get colds
Why cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections
Why the elderly who live in countries with high vitamin D consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die in the winter
Epidemic influenza kills roughly a million people every year worldwide, usually by causing pneumonia.


Vitamin D3 is the one to take,it's virutally impossible to OD on,they recommenc 2000 IU per day for adults.For children at least a thousand.http://www.healthyfutureforkids.com/2007/09/are-you-deficient-in-vitamin-d3.html

Here is a link to the site which explains all about vit D3,please read it,it's only one page and it could really benifit you and your babies/friends.Just have a read n see what you think

It is available both in tablet/pill form and in drops although the drops may have to be ordered.I got pills,gonna crush one up in my babies cups of milk each day! Hope it works out.I would also make sure they are not in a multivitamin or in a coloured flavoured package.

http://www.sunshinevitamin.org/