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What can you do to stop the sneezing?

In an attempt to ward off winter colds, Lucie Hoe reports on the truth behind some old wives’ tales

If you haven’t caught a cold already, the chances are that before long you will be sniffling and wheezing your way through one. In fact, with more than 200 cold viruses hovering in the air, each of us is likely to catch two or three this winter.

Building the body’s defences by stoking up the immune system with disease-fighting nutrients is said to help relieve a runny or blocked nose. But do the old wives’ tales we hear really make any difference? (more…)