This winter season we have all been on alert about the H1N1 virus and how it is lurking just about everywhere.  It is ever so important to take the necessary precautions to keep our health in tip top shape and our immune system strong. We may not be able to ward off the H1N1 since it is so powerful, but we could help increase our chances of bypassing that irritating common cold.

It was thought that there were 100 variants of rhinoviruses which are the most common cause of the common cold. Now they have discovered with more screening tests, a whole new group of rhinoviruses. “It’s beginning to look as if there may be as many as 200” cold viruses, says cold expert Owen Hendley, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and one of the world’s leading experts on cold viruses. Yes, it is the cold that just about every other person has at work and every other child has at school. Americans on average gets 3 to 4 colds and children average about 6 each year! Follow these tips below, and hopefully you can protect yourself and lower these averages! (continue reading…)