Comments on: Cold and flu prevention tips http://bohemianrevolution.com/cold-and-flu-prevention-tips-link-roundup/ Tips to Live By Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:21:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lexie Cassidy http://bohemianrevolution.com/cold-and-flu-prevention-tips-link-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-5386 Lexie Cassidy Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:59:56 +0000 http://bohemianrevolution.com/health-and-beauty/cold-and-flu-prevention-tips-link-roundup/#comment-5386 When I was an impoverished student, I lived mostly on homemade vegetable soup (plus homemade bread and purchased cheese -- a very cheap and healthy diet). I had such a complicated web of classes, research, and part-time jobs, I couldn't afford to be sick. I had read that "hot" spices did good things for the mucous membranes. So when I felt a cold or flu coming on, I would make a pot of soup so spicy I'd break out in a sweat from eating it. It seemed to do the trick -- not one of those nascent colds ever stuck around. When I was an impoverished student, I lived mostly on homemade vegetable soup (plus homemade bread and purchased cheese — a very cheap and healthy diet). I had such a complicated web of classes, research, and part-time jobs, I couldn’t afford to be sick.

I had read that “hot” spices did good things for the mucous membranes. So when I felt a cold or flu coming on, I would make a pot of soup so spicy I’d break out in a sweat from eating it. It seemed to do the trick — not one of those nascent colds ever stuck around.

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