THE ROAD WARRIOR FIELD GUIDE - HOW TO PROTECT THE TRAVELER FROM COLDS AND FLU

1.0 INTRODUCTION

Before you begin to read this article, I have a few questions for you.

1. Have you ever flown on a plane, and heard somebody coughing, sneezing and "gagging" about two seats behind you? Did you ever get ill after that flight?

2. Do you ever wonder about what is in the air that they are constantly recirculating throughout the airplane? Especially with that sick person (and perhaps others) coughing and sneezing in the air?

3. Are you concerned that many illnesses are transported across oceans or the country through the airplane? Are you interested in learning about a way to protect yourself from catching a cold or the flu on the plane?

The purpose of this article is to present information on a product is extremely effective in its mission to protect the traveler from colds and flu. This product is amazingly effective in preventing the traveler from catching colds and flus while traveling on a plane, subway or bus. Click here to learn more about this product.

2.0 SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION - WHY WE NEED TO PROTECT THE TRAVELER FROM COLDS AND FLU
There are at least two reasons why we need to protect the traveler from colds and flu.

1. Travelers are "on the front lines" of exposures to these pathogens, and

2. Travelers are part of the problem in spreading these pathogens all over the globe.

I will elaborate on these two points.

2.1 TRAVELERS ARE "ON THE FRONT LINES"
In addition to the usual set of nuisances that the traveler faces (e.g., flight delays/cancellations, lost luggage, etc.) the traveler also has to deal with another problem: Constant exposure to many different types of cold and Flu Viruses. Several years ago, we heard about SARS, and then Avian Flu, and more recently we have been hearing about Swine Flu. The fact is that the traveler (especially the International traveler) is right on the front line in exposure to many of these pathogens. The news on SARS and Avian Flu have (for the most part) faded away. And at some point the news on Swine (H1N1) will also fade away. Of course after the Swine Flu fades away there will be some other emerging pathogen. Hence, there will always be a need to protect the traveler from colds and flu.

2.2 TRAVELERS ARE ALSO THE KEY TO SPREADING THESE VIRUSES
The Traveler is also the key to the spread of these pathogens. If a certain type of flu virus emerges in Asia, it doesn't just swim across the Pacific Ocean to make it to the U.S. These types of pathogens are often times transported across the oceans by travelers on airplanes. Imagine if we could protect all travelers from these cold or flu viruses, and prevent them from catching these viruses while on travel to a place (like China). We could then (in theory) prevent these pathogens from spreading all over the planet. Hence, one key to preventing the spread of these pathogens across the globe is to protect the traveler from colds and flu by preventing them from getitng sick in the first place.

This worthy mission to protect the traveler from colds and flu is where the FreshAir Buddy is uniquely qualified to help to us.

3.0 WHAT IS THE FRESH AIR BUDDY AND HOW DOES IT WORK TO PROTECT THE TRAVELER FROM COLDS AND FLU?
The Fresh Air Buddy is a personal Air-Purifier that you wear around your neck. The Fresh Air Buddy was specifically designed to protect the traveler from colds and flu you by repelling particles away from the traveler (thereby creating an almost "particle-free" exclusion zone) around his/her breathing space.

Many of these particles that are repelled by the Fresh Air Buddy include toxic allergens, smoke, dust, viruses and bacteria.

The Fresh Air Buddy is extremely effective in protecting you from catching Colds, Flus and other illnesses whenever you are traveling on a plane, subway train, among large groups of people or anywhere else where you can be exposed to other people that might be carrying these sicknesses. If you are reading this article, then you are probably a person that is extremely busy, is "on-the-go" and doesn't want to miss out on anything. However, during this Cold and Flu season, make sure that you are the one that misses out on suffering with the colds and flus that are going around.

4.0 MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE FRESH AIR BUDDY
Many times, whenever I've traveled (on a plane) during Flu season, I would hear somebody "coughing and gagging" a couple of seats behind me. Sure enough, about 3 days later, I would start to feel very run-down, and then I would be ill for the next 7 days. This was the case before I started wearing the Fresh Air Buddy. Since then (about two years ago - as of the time that this article was written), I have been wearing the Fresh Air Buddy (each time I've flown) and I have yet to get sick from any flight.

5.0 HOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FRESH AIR BUDDY
Make sure that you are not ill after your next flight. Click here to check our website for information on periodic "time-limited" specials that we periodically run on the Fresh Air Buddy, and find out why the Fresh Air Buddy is the ultimate answer to protect the traveler from colds and flu.

Welcome - My First Blog Post

Hello All,
I would like to say "welcome", and that this is the very first posting in the "Live_and_Breathe_Better_in_LA" blog.

In order to formally introduce myself, my name is Darrell Smith and I currently reside in Southern California.

Up until January 2007, I was the Director of Applications Engineering for a Semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. Basically, my job was to manage a large team of Hardware Design, Software Development and Application Support Engineers and to (ultimately) make life designing our semiconductor chips into telecommunication systems as "pain-free" a process as possible for our customers. After resigning from the company, I (after taking some time off) decided to start up my own business.

Before I proceed much further, allow me to exercise "full disclosure" and confirm that I am a representative with a company called Ecoquest International. Ecoquest International is a company that sells (among other things) Air Purification technology.

There has been a fair amount of things that have said and written about the Air Purifiers from Ecoquest across many different web and blog posts. Some of the information is true and some of it is not true. I will make it a valiant attempt (on my part) to be as honest as I possibly can be on all of the issues surrounding the Air Purifiers from Ecoquest. The goals of this effort is to (hopefully) provide the readership with some clarity on many of the points that have been raised by the authors of some of these other postings.

I suspect that on some controversial issues (such as the use of Ozone - in some of our Air Purification products) I am not going to change any minds. I can accept and respect that. In these postings on this blog, my goal is to discuss and provide clarity on the following topics.

1. To (certainly) talk about the Ecoquest family of Air Purification Products. In particular, I want to discuss the following items about these products.
a. What they can do
b. What they cannot do
c. Some Ozone-free options that are available (if the topic of an Ozone producing Air Purifier is objectionable to you or if you live in Canada or in the State of California).

2. IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) Challenges within the Home
a. Mold
b. Toxic allergens (such as Smoke, dust, etc.).
c. Chemical gases and fumes (within the home)

3. Emerging Viruses and Bacteria (that in some cases, can be addressed with some of Ecoquest's Air Purification Technology). Some of this included (but is not limited to).
a. MRSA
b. H5N1 and H1N1
c. Colds
d. Foodborne Viruses such as eColi and Salmonella

4. How Ecoquest's family of Air Purification products "stack up" against that of our competition.

5. California's Law on Ozone Producing Air Purification machines and what that means for Ecoquest.

NOTE: I expect to write extensively on these topics over the next few weeks. However, the topics that I may write will not necessarily be limited to this topics.

Well, that wasn't too painful for a first Blog. In my next posting, I am going to begin with the process of discussing the capability of each of the Air Purification products that Ecoquest Manufactures.