More reasons to keep physical activity on your daily calendar. Lace on those shoes, rouse the children, and hustle them all out the door for a Family Walk!
Add exercise to that bowl of chicken soup if you want to ward off the common cold.Older women who walked for a half-hour daily for a year reported half the number of colds as non-exercisers, researchers report in the November issue of
the American Journal of Medicine.“There’s been a lot of anecdotal evidence that exercise prevents infection, and colds in particular,” said study author Cornelia M. Ulrich, an associate member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
