One of the main reasons that people get sick with a cold or the flu, is because of all the sugar, candy and desserts that most people binge on during the holiday seasons.

It all starts with Halloween night.

We know that eating mass quantities of candy is linked to all sorts of health problems and can lead to food addiction, which can sometimes last a lifetime. Healthy foods are not nearly as addictive.

Have you ever heard of someone being addicted to carrots? What were the consequences?

You see, at Halloween, the weather drastically gets colder real fast during this time of year, and this can lower your body's resistance to catching a cold.

This is because your body is not used to the rapid change in temperature, and it temporarily "shocks" your body. (If you don't dress properly.)

Also all of the "simple sugars" in the candy that everyone is eating "feeds germs" and lets them multiply rapidly in your body.

Most candy has very little, if any fiber in it, which in turn can cause constipation.

This combination of simple sugars, constipation and germs, results in rapidly multiplying germs, with plenty of "fuel", and a sluggish digestive tract, which lets the germs have plenty of time to multiply before they are eliminated.

If you have ever made bread you know that the yeasts eat the sugars, which makes air bubbles, which makes the dough "fluffy" for baking.

This happens in your body also, but there is no "baking" to eventually "kill off the yeast". So the yeast just have a feast and just keep on their multiplying. This is one of the major causes of gas pains.

Yeast love to live in the human body. The human body is like a hotel for yeast, and germs. There are always yeast and germs in your body, but that doesn't mean that you have to feed them their favorite food. (White sugar)

So right after Halloween, almost all kids at school are full of sugar, probably constipated, low resistance to infection, (from running around Halloween night in the cold and eating candy) and around thousands of other people, five days out of the week while at school.

So it's kind of like a domino effect. A few kids at school start sneezing, spreads all of their germs into the air, and everybody else is there, full of sugar, and have no choice but to breath in the germs.

When the germs come into contact with the sugars from the candy in their body, they start rapidly multiplying and taking over and invading your bodily systems. (Germs and yeast love sugar.)

Next thing you know, many people at school are sick, and then you have many people sneezing, and the process repeats itself over and over until most of the people at school are sick in one way or another.

Runny nose, cough, headache, gas pains, can't sit still and focus because of the "sugar high" (aka: attention deficit disorder), and the teachers don't like it if you disrupt the classroom and go to the bathroom to have diarrhea. (Which is one of your body's ways of trying to quickly get rid of the toxic overload in our digestive tract.)

Then the kids come home all sick (the parents probably give them seven up and crackers = more sugar and no fiber) sneezing all over their parents, then the parents take the germs and candy to work. Then they eat at a restaurant and spread the germs to the restaurant employees, then they sneeze into all the food, (you never see what goes on in that kitchen) and spread the germs to everyone that eats there.

The fast food restaurants distribute the germs to the population as fast as they can drive through the drive through. If they order a soda or milkshake with their germs, its time for the germs to multiply. This process repeats itself over and over again until the entire population has the germs in their bodies. You can't escape the germs no matter what.

What you can do is to not eat the foods that let the germs "multiply like crazy" before your immune system has a chance to keep them under control.

Sugars give germs plenty of "fuel" to multiply like crazy in your digestive track. Sugars also lets yeast multiply like crazy in your digestive track.

You see, yeast and germs can not easily live and multiply on certain foods, (like olive oil, almonds, fresh raw lemon juice, raw orange juice, cooked green beans, raw carrots, and many other foods.)

So if you eat the right foods, in the right combinations, in the right proportions, and stop eating mass quantities of sugars, then you will not set up your immune system for a battle that it does not want to deal with. Your body will however go to battle, and it usually wins, but it is going to drag you into the fight, and you are going to feel the consequences.

The best way to avoid battle wounds is to not give your enemy tons of weapons. Yeast and germs is your body's enemy, and simple sugars are their ammunition.

When you are on the proper diet, you will naturally be more resistant to catching a cold or the flu. This holiday season you don't have to follow the crowd. Just decide that it is not worth it to be sick. Include more fresh raw fruits and vegetables into your diet, and forget about the candy and desserts.

If you do this you might find that you will lose weight over the holidays, while everyone else is gaining weight, and miserably sick with "the flu".

About the author:

Teddy Grandy is the author of "The Digestive Chemistry Diet."

It is written from his own personal experience of his search for the answers to his minor health problems. It is the product of over 7 years of research, trial and error, and keeping a detailed food journal.

He has figured out how to reverse his acne, lose the last 20 pounds of fat on his body, increase his energy levels, and get rid of other minor health issues like gas pains, constipation, headaches, itchy skin, chronic fatigue, and chronic diarrhea.

He fixed his health problems by changing his diet only, and without the help of any drugs what so ever.

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His Lose weight without exercise diet program is also the way he cured his acne without drugs or medications.

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