Warm and Rested
Ah… Winter can be cozy if we hibernate properly with sufficient sleep and healthy heat, to keep our immune systems strong. Here’s a tootsie tip: keep your feet warm and dry with good wooly socks. A 2005 study by the Common Cold Centre in Cardiff (United Kingdom) reported that subjects who had their feet chilled in ice water developed colds 2.6 times more frequently.
Why? Viruses thrived in the frigid-foot folks because the temperature plunge constricted the blood vessels in their noses, preventing delivery of infection-fighting white blood cells.
Drinking beverages like tea and hot apple cider by a roaring fireplace, wrapped in a quilt over thick cotton pajamas, after a steaming hot bath or shower, is also a sure recipe for both comfort and cold-and-flu resistance. Also, try a sauna! A 1990 University of Vienna study with 25 sweaty volunteers discovered that there were “significantly fewer episodes of common cold in the sauna group.”
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