HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Strawberries Good to Avoid Cold and Flu

One serving of eight medium strawberries contains 84 milligrams of vitamin C and a boost against colds and flu. Considered a "super food," strawberries are loaded with nutrients, low in sugar and contain more vitamin C than oranges, according to Dr. Navindra Seeram of the Univ. of California Los Angeles Center for Human Nutrition. "Most people associate vitamin C with oranges, but if you look at oranges versus strawberries, strawberries actually contain more vitamin C than oranges," says Seeram. A healthy diet rich in vitamin C can help reduce the chance of catching a cold as well as limit severe symptoms and shorten their duration. Strawberries were available mostly in the spring, but California growers have introduced new varieties that boost the availability of strawberries in the fall and winter months, giving access to strawberries all year long.
 

Exercise Helps to Quite Smoking

Austrian researchers found that exercise-training therapy was an effective smoking cessation aid without side effects. The researchers investigated whether exercise-based interventions combined with a smoking cessation program were more effective than a cessation program alone.

Sixty-eight smokers participated and were randomly given either nicotine replacement therapy or nicotine replacement therapy with exercise training for three months. Forced expiratory volume and exhaled carbon monoxide were measured. While significant cigarette cessation was achieved in both groups, 80 percent in exercise training quit smoking, compared with 52 percent in the nicotine replacement therapy group. Researchers concluded that exercise training together with nicotine replacement therapy is feasible and aids smoking cessation.

The findings are being presented at the 72nd Annual International Scientific Assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians in Salt Lake City.

From everyone at Connecticut Family Chiropractic...we wish you a healthy and happy Holiday Season!!