{"id":1173,"date":"2013-01-10T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T04:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2013-01-10T23:25:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T04:25:05","slug":"wash-your-hands-avoid-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2013\/01\/wash-your-hands-avoid-the-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Wash Your Hands!  Avoid the Flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2013\/01\/wash-your-hands-avoid-the-flu\/washing-hands-with-soap\/\" rel=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/2013\/01\/wash-your-hands-avoid-the-flu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1174 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" alt=\"Washing Hands with Soap\" src=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Washing-Hands-220x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Washing-Hands-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Washing-Hands.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>The flu is making it&#8217;s miserable rounds again. Symptoms of this year&#8217;s flu are coughing, sneezing, fever, nasal congestion, overall weakness. There are two really powerful things you can do to either avoid getting the flu this year (and any other year, actually) or to reduce the intensity of the flu if you do get it.<\/p>\n<p>1<strong>. Wash your hands.<\/strong> The flu virus can live for many hours on surfaces like doorknobs, desktops, bathroom floors and counters, pencils, cell phones &#8230; etc etc. If you touch something in public, wash your hands. It&#8217;s that simple, really. Lots of soap. Lots of water. Wash those little buggers right down the drain.<\/p>\n<p>2.<strong> Don&#8217;t touch your mouth, nose, or ears<\/strong>. At all. The main way you will infect yourself is by touching a contaminated surface and then introducing the virus to your mouth, nose, or eyes. Don&#8217;t touch your face at all unless you&#8217;ve just washed your hands.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do even more to prevent the flu, Moneyning.com has a good list of 12 tips for avoiding the flu.\u00a0 The last one is to <strong>drink a little alcohol.<\/strong> Yes, it really does say that.\u00a0 Now, I don&#8217;t know if it is true or not, but it sure sounds like a good excuse to relax with a small glass of good wine.\u00a0 See for yourself at Moneying \u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/moneyning.com\/advice\/12-tips-for-avoiding-the-flu-without-a-flu-shot\/\"> 12 Tips for Avoiding the Flu (without a flu shot)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now stay healthy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flu is making it&#8217;s miserable rounds again. Symptoms of this year&#8217;s flu are coughing, sneezing, fever, nasal congestion, overall weakness. There are two really powerful things you can do to either avoid getting the flu this year (and any other year, actually) or to reduce the intensity of the flu if you do get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplelifecorp.com\/simplelifeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}