OK, we know that fat is bad.
(From the cheap seats: How Bad Is It?)
Short version: obesity was the single most important feature that all the people who ended up on life support in a Michigan hospital with complications of swine flu all had in common.
Come to think of it, my single worst swine flu patient was morbidly obese — he went on to need both Tamiflu and several antibiotics because of pneumonia. Never ended up in a hospital, thankfully, but I saw him every day for nearly a week, and he felt miserable.
Swine flu will come back in the fall, count on it, and summer is a good time to get healthy. I will reiterate my enthusiastic endorsement of Wellspring, and my gratitude to them for a job well done last summer.
L8r!