Posted on 10/29/2009 10:30:41 AM PDT by Pharmboy
AND, VITAMIN D3, and GARLIC!!!
The adage that vitamin C is good for a cold may turn out to be more true for the flu.
There is a plethora of foods and beverages alleged to be rich in anti-oxidants as well. Google will bring up dozens.
It’s always the Bama scientists who discover stuff like this.
Eating lots of Garlic keeps vampires and sick people away from you:)
That suggests that ingested antioxidants may help. That's good news.
No way...Just keep eating fried foods and coke....then get your flu shots and take 100 pills everyday. Eating good food is overrated. We would destroy the Pharmaceuticals if everyone ate right.
I get as many antioxidants as possible and feel excellent for now. While await the rest of the flu season to see how it goes. You name it I probably either get it daily or take it in capsule form. LOL.
More and more is being learned about antioxidants. And most fruits or vegetables with intense color and/or intense flavor are good sources of antioxidants: blueberries, cherries, elderberries, garlic, onion, muscadines, other dark grapes. Some varieties of the old, southern muscadine are thought to be perhaps the richest source of all.
I bought a juicer and have been drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juice for about a year now.
Haven't been sick during the last year at all.
my mom has cancer and it is imperative to keep the “flu bugs” away. her home healthcare aide told us that if you cut an onion in half and put it near the entrance to the home, and half in each room, it will keep the flu at bay. said one of her other patients had gotten the flu and after one day of misery, tried this in his bedroom and the next day he was better. i do not know if it really works or not but this lady swore by it. onions are full of quercitin, like garlic is, and that stuff is a pretty potent medicinal.
An apple a day?
Well, FWIW, the U of Alabama medical center has had one of THE premier nutritional researchers in Charles Butterworth. Their medicine is quite excellent...the findings in this study are real, but as I said above, whether they have any clinical relevance remains to be seen.
That is really interesting. I have three vines on the edge of my property line here in NC.
I have one Scuppernong vine, one Black Noble vine and a coastal “James grape” vine. My dad usually makes wine from them...I will have to let him know!
“I have one Scuppernong vine, one Black Noble vine and a coastal “James grape” vine. My dad usually makes wine from them...I will have to let him know!”
I know research has shown this to be true, but then some articles say it varies among different varieties. Here’s something from your state association:
http://www.ncmuscadine.org/healthfacts.html
Google: muscadine resveratrol, and you’ll find a lot. Mississippi State has done some good research on this. I’m planting some this winter.
How fascinating. I will check out the link when I get home from work. Thanks for posting it!
My family has been growing muscadines for generations out here in eastern North Carolina. It’s good to know what is considered such an ‘old fashioned’ grape is so healthy for you!
That is an intermediate (peroxide) which produces oxygen radicals in the body. Not a good actor (unless you’re cleaning a wound).
He was visiting a friend and asked him what that symbol was over his door (in a house in the northeast)? His friend said it keeps tigers away. Alex asked him if it worked, to which he replied:
"Seen any tigers around here lately?"
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