{"id":2978,"date":"2010-01-06T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/health-editor-d-feat-the-flu\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T04:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T08:00:52","slug":"health-editor-d-feat-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/health-editor-d-feat-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Editor: D-Feat the Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of an on-line health newsletter is red-hot angry that more people aren&#8217;t getting the message that higher vitamin D levels are linked to significantly lower rates of flu.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2979\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2010-01-06 Fight Flu copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/2010-01-06-Fight-Flu-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2010-01-06 Fight Flu copy\" width=\"167\" height=\"88\" \/>&#8220;With hundreds of thousands of seasonal flu-related complications, more than 35,000 deaths from the flu, and countless more from the H1N1 flu expected this season, ANH-USA asks the obvious question: What is the federal government doing about it?  The answer: Not Much! Sign our petition to persuade the government to break the silence about Vitamin D, the natural way to prevent and treat the flu,&#8221; writes Alliance for Natural Health editor Deborah Ray. &#8220;The Science is overwhelming; Vitamin D plays a critical role of in preventing and controlling infections due to the flu.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read Ray&#8217;s column by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anh-usa.org\/new_site\/?p=1566\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ray is asking readers to sign on on-line petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to urge them to take action on vitamin D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editor of an on-line health newsletter is red-hot angry that more people aren&#8217;t getting the message that higher vitamin D levels are linked to significantly lower rates of flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Health Editor: D-Feat the Flu - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The editor of an on-line health newsletter is red-hot angry that more people aren&#039;t getting the message that higher vitamin D levels are linked to significantly lower rates of flu. &quot;With hundreds of thousands of seasonal flu-related complications, more than 35,000 deaths from the flu, and countless more from the H1N1 flu expected this season, ANH-USA asks the obvious question: What is the federal government doing about it? The answer: Not Much! Sign our petition to persuade the government to break the silence about Vitamin D, the natural way to prevent and treat the flu,&quot; writes Alliance for Natural Health editor Deborah Ray. &quot;The Science is overwhelming; Vitamin D plays a critical role of in preventing and controlling infections due to the flu.&quot; Read Ray&#039;s column by clicking here. 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