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Hey Everybody, The CR Cold & Flu survey has been active for about a week, and we got 14 responses, with no more coming in lately, so I figured I'd summarize the results. I've screen captured the entire results as an image below so you can see the details, but here are the highlights: We got half of our respondents from the CR Forums, and half from the Facebook CRS group. We got a pretty good split of genders (9 male / 5 female) A pretty wide distribution of ages and time practicing CR, with quite a few veterans. A good number of low-BMI, apparently serious CR practitioners, so it was a pretty good sample. 80% of people reported getting a single cold / flu or less per year on average. This seems a lot lower than the general population. Nearly 80% say they get fewer colds / flu now than they did before starting CR. 54% say they get colds / flu less frequently than others in their household. 85% said they have low or low-normal white blood cell counts. 57% percent never get the flu shot. Overall, I think this confirms our hypothesis - that CR folks have a less inflammable body (reflected in low WBC count), but if anything possess a more competent immune system, as reflected in contracting fewer colds and flu than before they started CR, than others in their household, and than is average in the general population. --Dean
