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  Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-             I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend and got some Christmas shopping done. It wasn’t too cold and we avoided rain and snow for a little while longer. I almost don’t want to bring up Christmas shopping as it is another stress for some people to deal with. At Natural Health, we are really trying to get the word out for people to stay positive and not let things bother them or stress them out. Many people don’t realize that being stressed out is a decision on their part, or that they are reacting to an emotional stimulus and that they do have the ability to control this by staying calm. We tried to get patients to just breathe, breathing in slowly through the nose, holding the breath for a few seconds, and then exhaling through to the mouth slowly. This simple exercise helps to oxygenate the brain and get the body to slow down, even slowing heart rate and reducing blood press...

  STORY AT-A-GLANCE Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collected data from 125 countries, revealing that indoor relative humidity had the most significant correlation with daily new coronavirus cases and daily COVID-19 deaths In the northern hemisphere, as indoor humidity levels rose in the summer, COVID-19 deaths had a sharp decline; in the southern hemisphere, COVID-19 deaths rose as humidity levels declined during the winter months It’s been found in animal transmission studies that when relative humidity is kept in the “Goldilocks” zone of 40% to 60%, viruses become inactivated Humidifying preschool classrooms from January to March to approximately 45% relative humidity led to a significant reduction in influenza A virus, both in the air and on objects Researchers used a supercomputer to model the transmission of virus particles in indoor environments, finding that air humidity of lower than 30% led to more than double the number of aerosolized particles...