{"id":93149,"date":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93149"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:26:59","slug":"8-old-wives-tales-about-colds-and-how-to-avoid-them-from-vitamin-c-to-sleep-to-warm-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93149","title":{"rendered":"8 old wives\u2019 tales about colds and how to avoid them, from vitamin C to sleep to warm beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/15\/f9466335-7aba-4021-91f3-fe45c0a043c4_5a25b952.jpg?itok=JhVZa1Gl&amp;v=1792041547\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Colds may be spreading where you are as the end of the year nears, and they are usually followed by plenty of tips on <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">staying well<\/span> \u2013 but are any of them worth your while?<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">We asked scientists whether we should drink warm beer, head to the sauna, take vitamin C supplements and more.<\/p>\n<h3 type=\"h3\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"eh0yk8h0 css-17x7qa9 e1pqa4re1\">1. If you let yourself get cold, will you catch a cold?<\/h3>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This is partly true. However, feeling cold does not automatically make you ill, which requires viruses.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt is true that your body\u2019s defences are weakened to some extent if you get chilled or feel cold,\u201d says Dr Eva Hummers of the Institute of General Medicine at the University Medical Centre Goettingen, in Germany, and president of the German Society for General Practice and Family Medicine.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">People also say not to go out into the cold with wet hair, and that makes sense too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3370959\/8-old-wives-tales-about-colds-and-how-avoid-them-vitamin-c-sleep-warm-beer?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colds may be spreading where you are as the end of the year nears, and they are usually followed by plenty of tips on staying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2839,634,31718,1026,8474,30947,7364,8304],"class_list":["post-93149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-avoid","tag-beer","tag-colds","tag-sleep","tag-tales","tag-vitamin","tag-warm","tag-wives","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}