The average adult comes down with two to four colds every year. Add these tricks into your routine to keep that number low. (Photo: Frank May)
Fall means ABCs, 123s — and sniffles and sneezes. To avoid colds and the flu this season, keep these numbers in mind. (No Common Core math required!)
1. Sleep at least seven hours each night
People
have four times the odds of catching a cold if they sleep fewer than
six hours a night, compared with people who snooze more than seven
hours, a recent study
found. The study researchers sequestered participants in a hotel and
dosed them with the cold virus to see who could fight it off. The
results: Short sleepers were significantly more likely to come down with
cold symptoms that week, even when researchers controlled for things
like stress and smoking.
