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The Best Article Every day: "When cold and flu season hits this year, be prepared with some preventative action. You can’t avoid every cold going around, but you may be able to minimize your family’s risk."
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This list was basically a list of things a lot of people know to do normally. What annoys me the most I guess is that getting stuff like fresh fruit and vegetables is harder then it should be on a college campus like CMU. If they really can be linked to keeping people healthier, I have a hard time grasping why its so hard to get em on campus. The dorms are natural breeding grounds for disease, the least they school could do would be make it a little easier to get our campus food with a side of something that'll keep us healthy rather then generic chips.
On top of dorm life not being optimal for staying healthy are program also lends itself to not keeping us healthy. We don't get a lot of sleep, you can't really take a day off, and we are in such a close space sharing tools and supplies. Staying healthy is going to be difficult, but I guess all we can really do is try.
One of the most important things I have found in staying healthy during this season to just stay warm. Even if it’s not that cold out I make a point to stay really warm because that is the first way to becoming sick. I also think it is important to keep my stress level down in this season. If I get too stressed out then I stop taking care of myself. Just being aware of how I feel is one of most important things because normally I can stop it from progressing.
This is a wonderful article letting us all know how to stay healthy and active! I think we all should read this because number 7 states, GET SUNSHINE! which is something that we dont have here in Pittsburgh! I think we can all do our part to help the ourselves by being just a little bit more conscious of what we are doing to ourselves and others. Covering a cough even when you sneeze will prevent a minor percentage of germs from spreading. Even though it is almost impossible to stay healthy here at our dorms and in our major... we can strive to be healthy!
i personally feel that preventative measures are very important when it comes to colds and the flu. However, in addition to helping with the prevention of the flu, this list has suggestion to help maintain a healthy lifestyle all the time, not just all year around. If we could find a way to make some of these tips a part of our daily lives, we may be able to achieve better health in general and a stronger immune system.
Okay, I understand why this article would be considered helpful but the majority of advice was already passed down to us from mom and dad. My favorite one is "Get some sunshine." Somehow I don't associate sunshine and the flu season together. I don't know about you, but can any of you see the sunshine outsides this lovely week. Unfortunately this article says nothing about the affects of the flue exhanged in high condensed social enviroments like college.
I'm not sure how this list is any different from any of the lists we have heard from our parents, GPs and teachers for years. Every year they reprise the warnings and the coping methods. However, one interesting aspect of the article is the idea that it is diet and not merely avoiding germs, staying out in the cold etc which can cause us to become ill. This new perspective, no doubt brought to the forefront due to the heightened knowledge and growing voice of Eastern medicine in our culture instead of merely using harmful antibiotics. Very interestin.g
Most of us have heard these tips before, but when your busy every day in a program like the one we have here its easy to forget the simple things: get enough sleep, eat right, get sunshine, etc. I was surprised that getting a massage could actually help ward off the flu.
I went down that list and half the things were impossible for me to change ie. sleep, no coffee, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. I agree with Charley here that CMU does not have a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. As a vegetarian that is something I really miss. Sure, I can get a green pepper at Entropy, but they are often rotten. Getting fresh food often means going to the Giant Eagle in Squirrel Hill which is not convient for our schedule. I think that CMU should let students use Dinex at the Giant Eagle and other supermarkets. Students would be a lot happier.
Basically this is a great long list of "mom" advice that we all have known since infancy. The thing is that we just choose not to listen. I think a lot of us would be so much healthier and generally better off if we just did what we know is good for our bodies.
I agree with the others--this is stuff that we all know, but given our lifestyles it is often next to impossible to follow. Sleeping, taking time off, fresh produce--that stuff can be tricky. But we must do what we can. I'm a fan of vitamins--I throw back some airborne or emergen-c pretty regularly. I wash my hands a lot lot lot. And I try to get outside and get some fresh air when I can spare a moment. Let's face it, what real person has the time for all this? What matters is that you keep your health in mind and you what you can.
This is basically a composition of what we should have learned from mom and dad put into list form. It is all common sense and should be included in everyone’s life… however living on campus makes this extremely difficult. I will only speak about one aspect… the unavailableness of fresh anything. There is only one place on campus where you can get fresh veggies, and a few with fresh fruit. However, because of how freshman meal plans are structured… this it makes it very difficult. I do not understand how they can expect teenagers to eat healthy without providing the right foods.
This list is, as everyone has already stated, pretty common sensical because of what we've heard from others growing up. I think though the point really is that you have to actually DO these things for them to work. It doesn't matter that everyone already knows what to do to prevent from getting horribly sick if nobody takes the advice. The fact that this keeps getting repeated every single year goes to show that people aren't doing these things and that some people really don't know how to keep themselves healthy year round. I often see people, especially students, turning to these tips when they feel the sickness coming but by then its already too late.
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This list was basically a list of things a lot of people know to do normally. What annoys me the most I guess is that getting stuff like fresh fruit and vegetables is harder then it should be on a college campus like CMU. If they really can be linked to keeping people healthier, I have a hard time grasping why its so hard to get em on campus. The dorms are natural breeding grounds for disease, the least they school could do would be make it a little easier to get our campus food with a side of something that'll keep us healthy rather then generic chips.
On top of dorm life not being optimal for staying healthy are program also lends itself to not keeping us healthy. We don't get a lot of sleep, you can't really take a day off, and we are in such a close space sharing tools and supplies. Staying healthy is going to be difficult, but I guess all we can really do is try.
One of the most important things I have found in staying healthy during this season to just stay warm. Even if it’s not that cold out I make a point to stay really warm because that is the first way to becoming sick.
I also think it is important to keep my stress level down in this season. If I get too stressed out then I stop taking care of myself. Just being aware of how I feel is one of most important things because normally I can stop it from progressing.
This is a wonderful article letting us all know how to stay healthy and active! I think we all should read this because number 7 states, GET SUNSHINE! which is something that we dont have here in Pittsburgh! I think we can all do our part to help the ourselves by being just a little bit more conscious of what we are doing to ourselves and others. Covering a cough even when you sneeze will prevent a minor percentage of germs from spreading. Even though it is almost impossible to stay healthy here at our dorms and in our major... we can strive to be healthy!
i personally feel that preventative measures are very important when it comes to colds and the flu. However, in addition to helping with the prevention of the flu, this list has suggestion to help maintain a healthy lifestyle all the time, not just all year around. If we could find a way to make some of these tips a part of our daily lives, we may be able to achieve better health in general and a stronger immune system.
Okay, I understand why this article would be considered helpful but the majority of advice was already passed down to us from mom and dad. My favorite one is "Get some sunshine." Somehow I don't associate sunshine and the flu season together. I don't know about you, but can any of you see the sunshine outsides this lovely week. Unfortunately this article says nothing about the affects of the flue exhanged in high condensed social enviroments like college.
I'm not sure how this list is any different from any of the lists we have heard from our parents, GPs and teachers for years. Every year they reprise the warnings and the coping methods. However, one interesting aspect of the article is the idea that it is diet and not merely avoiding germs, staying out in the cold etc which can cause us to become ill. This new perspective, no doubt brought to the forefront due to the heightened knowledge and growing voice of Eastern medicine in our culture instead of merely using harmful antibiotics. Very interestin.g
Most of us have heard these tips before, but when your busy every day in a program like the one we have here its easy to forget the simple things: get enough sleep, eat right, get sunshine, etc.
I was surprised that getting a massage could actually help ward off the flu.
I went down that list and half the things were impossible for me to change ie. sleep, no coffee, and a variety of fruits and vegetables. I agree with Charley here that CMU does not have a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables. As a vegetarian that is something I really miss. Sure, I can get a green pepper at Entropy, but they are often rotten. Getting fresh food often means going to the Giant Eagle in Squirrel Hill which is not convient for our schedule. I think that CMU should let students use Dinex at the Giant Eagle and other supermarkets. Students would be a lot happier.
Basically this is a great long list of "mom" advice that we all have known since infancy. The thing is that we just choose not to listen. I think a lot of us would be so much healthier and generally better off if we just did what we know is good for our bodies.
I agree with the others--this is stuff that we all know, but given our lifestyles it is often next to impossible to follow. Sleeping, taking time off, fresh produce--that stuff can be tricky. But we must do what we can. I'm a fan of vitamins--I throw back some airborne or emergen-c pretty regularly. I wash my hands a lot lot lot. And I try to get outside and get some fresh air when I can spare a moment. Let's face it, what real person has the time for all this? What matters is that you keep your health in mind and you what you can.
This is basically a composition of what we should have learned from mom and dad put into list form. It is all common sense and should be included in everyone’s life… however living on campus makes this extremely difficult. I will only speak about one aspect… the unavailableness of fresh anything. There is only one place on campus where you can get fresh veggies, and a few with fresh fruit. However, because of how freshman meal plans are structured… this it makes it very difficult. I do not understand how they can expect teenagers to eat healthy without providing the right foods.
This list is, as everyone has already stated, pretty common sensical because of what we've heard from others growing up. I think though the point really is that you have to actually DO these things for them to work. It doesn't matter that everyone already knows what to do to prevent from getting horribly sick if nobody takes the advice. The fact that this keeps getting repeated every single year goes to show that people aren't doing these things and that some people really don't know how to keep themselves healthy year round. I often see people, especially students, turning to these tips when they feel the sickness coming but by then its already too late.
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