posted January 21, 2005 10:02 AM         

Iīm writing just to share one of my secrets to stay healthy and away from colds, flu and any of the sort... I almost do it religiously, now itīs a morning ritual...

Itīs as simple as having a full glass of freshly squeezed orange juice every morning, before breakfast...

The one you get from the shops is not good... Even when it says it has added Vitamin C... You need to squeeze it yourself... Procesed food never replaces the real stuff... Did you know all Vitamin C desintegrates after 1 hour in contact with air (it oxidizes and becomes another chemical substance)?... So you need to squeeze it and drink it fast! If you donīt have time in the morning, I have read that if you squeeze it and freeze it, juice will only lose a 5% Vitamin C in the process... better than nothing...

I used to get colds and throat infections all the time... Fever, congestion, losing my voice, then bad coughs... Flu, tonsilitis, bad colds, Iīd have them all... My mum got her tonsils removed when she was a child because of her propension so it may well be inherited...

Since I started to do that 2 years ago I rarely get a mild cold a year... My whole family and most of my friends may get sick, but I donīt...We recently had an flu epidemy here in Madrid and it didnīt touch me... Before, I would have been the first of them all... I have a pregnant friend who cures her colds that way because, as she is in her first months of pregnancy, doctors donīt allow her to take tablets of any kind... And it works!!! Of course, the best cure is prevention...