Test for Vaccine Efficacy | Avocado and the Gut
From eNewsletter 7/7/2021
DID YOU KNOW that a recent study in The Journal of Nutrition states that avocado consumption has a positive effect on our gut microbiome? Subjects consuming a little over one cup of mashed avocado daily for twelve weeks showed marked improvement in six fecal assessments indicating better microbial diversity and enriched intestinal strains that have a positive effect on gut integrity.
Announcements 2021 Bonnie C. Minsky Award Recipient Once per year, Bonnie gives a scholarship to one graduate student at University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health. The 2021 recipient of the Bonnie C. Minsky Award is Amanda Montgomery. Amanda is a Registered Dietitian and first-year MPH Student in the Community Health Sciences. She is a member of Radical Public Health and a Research Assistant with the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Committee. She has worked as a Community Dietitian for five years and is currently the Community Health Education Manager at Heartland Health Centers. She is passionate about food justice, compassion-based nutrition and reducing anti-fat bias within public health and health care systems. She is so proud to have been selected as the recipient of the Bonnie C. Minsky Award. As a Registered Dietitian, she is passionate about nutrition and has spent her entire career working to increase health equity. She believes that every person deserves access to resources that support health including affordable, culturally relevant foods, accessible health care and safe play spaces. She hopes to work for a social justice focused health care organization, impacting both communities and the health care system. She wants to work in partnership with communities to create relevant, sustainable solutions to health inequities, and to support them in creating systems of food and eating that allow them to connect to their culture and fill them with joy.
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UPDATE - COVID-19 Vaccine Information We updated this document Monday, July 5th.
Virus Prevention And Treatment Vaccines will minimize COVID-19 related mortality and hospitalizations, but SARS-CoV-2 is not going away, as evidenced by its ever-mutating variants. Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 is not the only virus we fight. There are influenza (flu), norovirus (stomach flu), adenovirus (common cold), and four other coronaviruses (common cold), among others.We highly recommend continuing your immune support. For more information, refer to our Prevent and Fight Viruses 2.0 Protocol.
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COVID-19 UPDATE Steve and Bonnie: Here are latest studies most relevant for you.
Vitamin D
A large study of Israeli citizens in Medrxiv states that among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D was associated with increased disease severity and mortality.