14 Ways to Prevent a Nasty Cold or Flu
Sick of suffering through the sniffles? Next time you feel a cold coming on try one of these strategies to bring it to a dead halt.
Cold and Flu
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4 Natural Cough Remedies
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6 Tricks to Treat and Prevent a Cold
Find out what you can do to prevent catching a cold this season and learn how to treat a cold if you happen to catch one anyway.
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Guide to Medicinal Herbs
Looking for an all-natural remedy for arthritis or a quick fix for the common cold? Find out more about medicinal herbs to treat or prevent what ails you.
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6 Secrets to Beating a Cold With Natural Products
Susan Smith Jones, PhD, is no stranger to health secrets. The author of 27 books, including The Joy Factor: 10 Sacred Practices for Radiant Health, has been teaching students at UCLA how to be healthy and fit for 30 years.
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Tune Up Your Immune System
What multiplies as fast as a flu virus? Claims about immune boosters, most of which just boost a few bucks from your wallet. Here are the ones worth trying out.
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Around-the-World Home Remedies
Every culture has its own special folk medicines that are passed down through the generations. Recent medical studies have confirmed that many of the herbs used in these home remedies are effective.
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Flu Shot, or Not?
Arm yourself with reliable resources and information to protect yourself and your family during the flu season.
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How to Cure the Common Cold
There may be no cure for the common cold, but why suffer through the symptoms or the unpleasant taste of over-the-counter medications? Create your own remedies for congestion, sore-throat, cough, and fever with these easy recipes.
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Dealing with a Sick Child
Whether it's a cold, a chronic illness or an allergy, you can't keep kids home forever. And it’s double-whammy when kids have to miss school and parents have to cut work to care for them. So will it be a sick day or a school day? Here’s how to figure things out.
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10 Healing Herbs
There’s a whole new arsenal of supplements that natural medicine experts “prescribe” for themselves and their patients—because they’re backed by compelling research that proves they really work. Your doctor isn’t likely to tell you about them, so you’ll just have to discover them for yourself. Here are the top ten natural remedies that live up to their promise.
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Brew Up a Cough Taming Tea
Sometimes things that feel good are actually good for you. A cup of hot tea can soothe your throat and tame your cough if you brew it with the right ingredients.
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Dose a Cough with Down-Home Syrups
Would you rather suffer through your cough than take that disgusting store bought syrup? Instead, try one of these homemade cough and sore throat remedies. They work and they don't taste awful.
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The ABCs of Hand Washing
Roughly one-third of North Americans have forgotten one of the most basic lessons their mothers taught them: Wash your hands. Though 95 percent of North American adults say they scrub after using public rest rooms, researchers found that only 67 percent actually do.
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How to Cure and Prevent the Common Cold
We can clone mammals, send a spacecraft to Mars, and invent fat-free cheesecake, but we can’t cure the common cold.
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