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Chicken soup is good for a cold
Unfortunately, there’s no real cure for the common cold, but chicken soup can make you feel better. How? Well, according to a study done back in 2000, it seems the soup held back the movement of neutrophils, which are the most common type of white blood cell to fight against infection. Dr. Stephen Rennard, who conducted the study using his wife’s homemade chicken soup recipe, theorised that this helps reduce upper respiratory cold symptoms.
While the exact ingredients responsible for this couldn’t be identified, there are thoughts that it could simply be a combination of the chicken and the vegetables. Well, they are both good for you. Or maybe it’s just the warm, healing feeling that drinking soup seems to give you? Either way, keep a chicken soup recipe handy for when you, or a loved one isn’t feeling too well just in case.
Fish is brain food
Eating just one kind of fish a week, grilled or baked, boosts your brain power according to this study. Apparently, any kind of fish, not just the oily ones, will do.
