How to Avoid the "Flu"

• Editorial?• “It is not necessary for you to contract Spanish influenza even tho [sic] you may be exposed to it. It is not reasonable to suppose that man is helpless before a germ so small that the microscope has been unable to discover it. Writing on the subject of pneumonia one of the scientists of the Rockefeller Institute says that nearly everyone has the germ of pneumonia in the throat at all times, but that most people do not contract the disease because their resistance is good. There is the key to the situation—if your vitality, your resistance to disease, is good, you need not fear any germ.”• Scientists tie a lowering of resistance to overeating, in particular the overconsumption of meat• “If you will eat more fruit and vegetables and less meat—not over two or three ounces a day; keep the system free from meat poisons; and avoid getting very tired and chilled at the same time, you may snap your fingers at the Spanish influenza germ, the pneumonia germ and hundreds of other germs as well.”Newspaper article